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Transmeta nabs big corporate deal
Transmeta has won a major foothold in the corporate market, with Fujitsu choosing its chips to power 12,000 laptops that will be used by a Japanese insurance company.All employees of Taiyo Life Insurance's sales force will use the laptops, which will be distributed starting Monday.
All employees of Taiyo Life Insurance's sales force will use the laptops, which will be distributed starting Monday. The systems will be used by salespeople on the road, selling insurance, calculating rates and generating maps for driving to customer sites, said Jim Chapman, Transmeta's senior vice president of sales and marketing.
The deal with Taiyo and Fujitsu, announced today in Japan, is a shot in the arm for Transmeta, which hopes corporate adoption will help it expand from its current Japanese customer base to the United States. --Stephen Shankland, Special to ZDNet News