ATOS ORIGIN SELLS ITS NORDIC OPERATIONS TO WM-DATA
PARIS – May 23rd, 2005 – Atos Origin, a leading international information technology services provider, today announced that it has reached agreement to sell its Nordic operations to WM-data for SEK 1,330 million (EUR 145 million), payable in cash at completion. The transaction remains subject to approval from the competition authorities in Sweden and Norway, but is expected to complete in the second half of June 2005. Atos Origin and WM-data will enter into an alliance agreement to provide extended support for each other’s clients in their respective geographic domains.Atos Origin acquired