Comments on: Dell to Buy Perot Systems for Services

By: Michael Dell Talks Up Services and Coming Upgrades — But Trashes Netbooks

Michael Dell Talks Up Services and Coming Upgrades — But Trashes Netbooks — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:39:40 +0000

[...] toward focusing on services, solutions, the enterprise and emerging countries. He said Dell’s recently announced $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems is directly focused on offering services to enterprises. Hewlett-Packard and IBM have been building [...]

By: Will Xerox’s $6.4 Billion Bet on the Cloud Pay off?

Will Xerox’s $6.4 Billion Bet on the Cloud Pay off? — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:26:34 +0000

[...] week Dell said it would buy Perot Systems and the year before HP purchased EDS, another outsourcer. Both moves were efforts to get deeper [...]

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:12:05 +0000

What will happen to the Perot emplyees after this merger? Is this benficial to the Perot employees?

Will they fire/reduce some of the Perot emplyees? What do you say :(

By: engago team

engago team — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:44:38 +0000

Form fast moving products with online sales
To slow moving project sales.

DELL is not a genius.

By: Phone Reviews

Phone Reviews — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:01:49 +0000

Once again, Dell plays follow the leader. HP bought a Plano-based services company, so Mikey did too.

By: Invest Tools

Invest Tools — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:50:16 +0000

$30 per share in cash? not bad for Perot Systems. I hope it’s a good deal for Dell in long term.

By: Dell To Buy Perot Systems For $3.9B — tinyComb

Dell To Buy Perot Systems For $3.9B — tinyComb — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:59:33 +0000

[...] Last year HP purchased EDS, an IT services company that was also founded by Ross Perot, in 1962. (Om) Related Posts:Dell Phone To Launch In China Within DaysIs The New Dell Phone A Palm?Dell's New [...]

By: Niraj

Niraj — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:30:05 +0000

A PC Assembler + a US only outsourcer not equal any strategic advantage.

HP + EDS –> had a big play on cloud computing — > next growth area

Dell + Perot –> can only mint cash cow , legacy businesses – would be hard to be a growth driver

By: P. Roagain

P. Roagain — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:13:52 +0000

“Here we go again” are the words Ross Perot used when he started Perot Systems after selling out EDS to General Motors to become a billionaire. The cycle is now complete. My condolences to all of the loyal employees who will be the casualties necessary to make the aquisition successful and Perot even richer. Hopefully, you’ll still be able to pay your mortgage/rent/car payments. Just check out the blogs about what happened to loyal EDS employees after the latest HP buyout.

By: gbp

gbp — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:16:47 +0000

Only if you know how to run the business.
Perot FWIW, is not a big player in high end business /software consulting in commercial sector.
Their major customers are government and healthcare sector. Dell can milk existing contracts for some time. But they ( both Perot and Dell) are way behind in terms of competing in high priced business consulting.

They are good for desktop support, configuration management tools , help desk ticketing…
which are not commodity business.