Dell Buying Perot Systems For $3.9 Billion

alphadogg writes "Dell has agreed to buy Perot Systems for around $3.9 billion in cash, and intends to make the company its global services delivery division, the companies said Monday.The deal will allow Dell to expand its range of IT services, and potentially allow it to sell more hardware to existing Perot customers, it said. Dell's rival Hewlett-Packard expanded its own global services unit with the acquisition of EDS for $13.9 billion in May 2008. Over the last four quarters, Dell and Perot together had revenue of $16 billion from enterprise hardware and IT services, with $8 billion coming from enhanced services and support, Dell said. Perot's contribution to that is relatively small: In 2008, the company reported total revenue of $2.78 billion."

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Wow, that's a shocker.

[filesiteguy]

Since when does a hardware company feel it is a good idea to purchase a software delivery company? I can see some bean counters saying it might bring more Dell-branded hardware to the Perot-systems customers, but is that really gonna happen?

I wonder if HP will look at buying EDS now.

Oh, wait...