Tokyo, May 1, 2000 -- Fujitsu Limited has concluded a licensing agreement
with Ford Motor Company under which Ford and its Japan-based Mazda Motors
affiliate will use Fujitsu's "TransLinGO! Enterprise" Japanese-English
translation software on its internal systems. The licensing agreement
was concluded at the end of January and the software is already in use.
Ford, a leading global provider of automotive products and services, has
been expanding its worldwide business through its many international
subsidiaries and affiliates. To help ease communication and information
sharing with personnel at Mazda, Ford selected Fujitsu's TransLinGO!
Enterprise translation software, which runs on an English Windows operating
environment and enables users to view Japanese Web pages, e-mail and files
created in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint in English.
The decision to use TransLinGO! Enterprise follows upon Mazda's positive
experience using Fujitsu's "ATLAS V.6.0 Double Pack" translation software.
This earlier bi-directional translation product (i.e., English to Japanese
and Japanese to English), in use at Mazda since early 1999, has been
particularly popular with Mazda engineers in the product development
division, who use it for exchanging letters, faxes and e-mail with their
colleagues at Ford. With its improved translation quality and ability to
provide Web page translation in an English operating environment,
TransLinGO! Enterprise builds on this successful experience and is expected
to further contribute to intra-company communication within the Ford group.
Fujitsu expects TransLinGO! Enterprise to become a popular communication
tool at other global companies seeking to utilize Web-based Japanese
language information. In addition to multinational companies with Japanese
affiliates, joint ventures between Japanese and international companies are
seen as promising potential customers.
TransLinGO! Enterprise Product Highlights
| System requirement: | Windows 95/ 98/ NT4.0 (English edition) |
| Web translation : | Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator |
| File translation : | Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint |
| E-mail translation: | Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger |
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About Fujitsu Limited
Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider of Internet-based
information technology solutions for the global marketplace.
Comprising over 500 group companies and affiliates worldwide --
including ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting -- it had consolidated
revenues of 5.26 trillion yen ($49.6 billion) in the fiscal year ended
March 31, 2000. Fujitsu's pace-setting technologies, world-class
computing and telecommunications platforms, and global corps of over
60,000 systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to
harness the power of the Internet to help its customers succeed.
Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has 188,000 employees and operations
in over 100 countries.
Home page: http://www.fujitsu.com/