MCI Systemhouse specializes in running

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s for customers and is a subsidiary of the

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-based

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, the result of a 1995 $1 billion acquisition of Canadian company SHL Systemhouse and its subsequent integration with MCI's technical services branch. The new company was formed to provide

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and

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services. SHL Systemhouse based in Ottawa, Ontario, had revenue of $1.2 billion Canadian dollars in 1994, or about $883 million at then current exchange rates. On February 11, 1999, MCI Systemhouse was acquired by EDS of

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for $1.65 billion. EDS was able to recoup almost 25% of the purchase price by selling SHL Systemhouse's stake in

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for $400 million in January, 2000. Prior to the acquisition, MCI Systemhouse was one of several entities that formed

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, a group devoted to the development of the

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(UML).

History

Customers of MCI Systemhouse have included

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, CSAA,

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, and

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References

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