The Hotel Raphael, Paris, was the venue for Honeywell's annual media day on May 6. Announcements of interest to EBAN readers were the arrival of the AS900 engine in Belgium for testing, the acquisition of Intalogik, a deal with France Telecom, and an assessment of the state of play in the AlliedSignal Honeywell merger. \rA fully-conformed AS900 engine has been shipped to Honeywell's risk sharing partner in Belgium, Tech Space Aero, for accelerated testing. The AS900 will be run at higher-than-design temperature and speed conditions, such that one hour of operation will equal four hours of service. The AS900 has demonstrated over 8,000 pounds of thrust, in excess of the power requirement for Bombardier Continental.\rIntalogik, formerly a joint venture with the AGES Group of the US, has been bought in full by Honeywell. The web-based service provides a point of contact for the management of aerospace rotables, including avionics, pneumatics, hydraulics, landing gear, auxiliary power units and engines. \r"The market demand for a single point of contact has never been stronger, as evidenced by sales which have doubled each year for the last three years," said Intalogik's director Adrian Paull. He added that the UK based company has 80 customers in Europe and had revenues of US$10 million in 1999. \rAlliedSignal and Honeywell were granted permission from the European Commission to complete their merger in November 1999. At that time, Honeywell trumpeted expected cost savings of £750 million by 2002. Said Bob Johnson, president and ceo of Honeywell Aerospace: "We really had two mergers last year; Allied Signal combined internally. That is to say, we put our energy together, which has made the merger with Honeywell easier.\r"If you think of the entire merger process as a ten-point procedure, we are really on step two. The formalities have been completed," he added.