MBL International, the ComputerLand Corp franchise holder for the former Soviet Union, has named the Russian-French joint venture Quorus as the official ComputerLand representative in the Ural region. A spokesman for ComputerLand says the new branch hopes to sell IBM Corp, Compaq Computer Corp, Apple Computer Inc, Toshiba Corp, NEC Corp and Seiko-Epson Co hardware and a range of localised western software products. But Quorus senior vice-president Boris Shimanovich was circumsspect about sales of packaged software. No one sells much software in the Urals region, he says. He adds that between 10% to 15% of customers that buy personal computer networks will purchase a copy of Novell Inc NetWare, the network standard in Russia. The others will get a copy from elsewhere. We will install it, and provide training and service – but we don’t ask where the software came from.
