Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!amdahl!sjl From: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon) Newsgroups: net.jobs Subject: Re: Wanted: Info on EDS Message-ID: <2211@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 18:55:01 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.2211 Posted: Sun Nov 10 18:55:01 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:37:47 EST References: <586@isrnix.UUCP> <2048@reed.UUCP> <607@calmasd.UUCP> Reply-To: sjl@amdahl.UUCP (Steve Langdon) Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 17 In article <607@calmasd.UUCP> jpm@calmasd.UUCP (John McNally) writes: >3. Hasn't EDS been recently acquired by General Motors (in some >form) to do their MAP (manufacturing automation protocol) >implementation after GM could find no satisfactory contractors? This is inaccurate. GM did buy EDS, but the MAP project is still part of GM, and MAP, unlike most of the computer related work, was not given to EDS. The majority of the MAP implementation work is done by companies making products which they wish to sell to GM and others who have decided to buy MAP compatible products. -- Stephen J. Langdon ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!sjl [ The article above is not an official statement from any organization in the known universe. ]