Case study

Minitel

The resistible rise of French videotex

An experimental on-line case study

Ewan Sutherland

• Introduction
• Inventing videotex
• Marketing videotex
• Background to French telecommunications
• France Télécom
• Developing French videotex
• Messagerie Conviviale [Parental Advisory! This section may contain material unsuitable for young adults and children, those of a nervous disposition or who are severely sexually repressed.]
• Brun Passot (an industrial marketing example)
• An unnatural market
• Cour des Comptes (in French!)
• Quickening pace of technology and politics
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Chronology
• Web links

For those who want to print out the whole case. I have assembled a single file with most of the material. I have omitted the Cour des Comptes documents (in French), the Brun Passot case and the bibliography.

I suspect this defeats the purpose of putting the case on the Web. I shall have to rethink this problem.

Original article (1990) from International Journal for Information Resource Management 1 (4) pp 4-14.
[ in Word for Windows format, HTML version, in postscript format ]

Copyright © Ewan Sutherland, 1995.

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