ICL Denmark will become the UK mainframer’s second biggest European subsidiary after ICL France following an agreement under which ICL has taken a 50% stake in the flagship Danish computer manufacturer Regnecentralen A/S, which trades as RC Computer, with Danish interests holding the other 50%; ICL Denmark will be merged with Regnecentralen to create a group with UKP50m annual sales and 700 employees in Denmark. Alcatel NV was previously the dominant shareholder in the Danish company, but was open to offers for all the former ITT computer businesses, as we revealed here in April (CI No 915). Like ICL, RC Computer is committed to Unix, selling its own 68000 family machines; it also has a licence for Tolerant Systems’ fault-tolerant implementation of Unix. On the data communications side, it has a unit that builds packet-switched networks.
