• DocumentCode
    1090864
  • Title

    Against the Current: The Sperry-Burroughs Merger and the Unisys Struggle to Survive 1980-2001

  • Author

    Gray, George T. ; Smith, Ronald Q.

  • Author_Institution
    Georgia Technol. Authority, Atlanta, GA
  • Volume
    29
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    3
  • Lastpage
    17
  • Abstract
    Competitors of IBM at the beginning of the 1980s, Sperry and Burroughs found it increasingly difficult to match IBM´s market power and depth of product line. The two companies merged to form Unisys in 1986. Burdened by heavy debt, battered by the 1991 recession, Unisys persisted and went on to develop new business strategies to meet the needs of server-based computing.
  • Keywords
    DP industry; corporate acquisitions; Sperry-Burroughs merger; Unisys; business strategies; server-based computing; Banking; Business; Companies; Computer applications; Computer languages; Corporate acquisitions; Large-scale systems; Microcomputers; Standards publication; Switches; Burroughs; ClearPath; Remington Rand; Sperry; Sperry Rand; Sperry-Burroughs merger; Unisys; server-based computing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2007.16
  • Filename
    4287213
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1090864