HP: The New Services Powerhouse?
    HP is aiming to 
scoop 
  up EDS for a cool $14 billion or so. HP is already cleaning up in servers, 
  and has a sweet PC and laptop business. And no one can touch it in printers. 
  But today's complex market requires services -- lots of services. 
IBM's service business is the biggest and most influential by far. It can help 
  companies take a top-to-bottom look at its infrastructure and redo the datacenter 
  with a more flexible and power-saving architecture. HP can do the exact same 
  thing, but lacks the sheer muscle of the IBM group. 
EDS could change all that in a heartbeat. My only concern is in blending the 
  cultures which, given Ross Perot's legacy -- he may have sold EDS to GM in 1984, 
  but his influence lingers on -- are very different.
 
	
Posted by Doug Barney on May 14, 2008