Decisions about the European computer industry

In deciding whether to approve more funds for Compagnie Internationale pour l'Informatique (CII), the French member of the European computer grouping Unidata, the French government is having to weigh up the long term prospects of, for example, an alliance with an American company. Professor A. S. Douglas, Professor of Computational Methods at the London School of Economics and Past President of the British Computer Society examines the underlying issues.