A bad week for Ross Perot

It has been a bad week for Ross Perot.  First he sells (or according to some people, had to sell) Perot Systems to Dell.  Then the announcement comes today that the EDS name is going away and the former EDS will just be a division of HP called HP Enterprise Services.  Next thing you know [...]

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Job cuts at EDS?

Another article about the EDS-HP ‘merger’, which may be official as soon at August 19 (tomorrow).  This article expects some layoffs at EDS.  It sounds like mostly on the administrative side, since the executives are so super valuable to the company and the people who do the work need to be kept around to do [...]

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EDS-HP scuttlebutt

According to At Least One Huge Tech Deal WILL Happen This Week, the ’scuttlebutt’ is that EDS is an undermanaged mess and that big expense cuts are coming.  I’m not sure what ‘undermanaged’ means but I guess it is undermanaged in comparison to HP.
I wonder how these expense cuts will work.  I hope somebody goes [...]

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EDS AG?

Now that’s interesting: Deutsche Telekom in exploratory talks with EDS.  It’s been a while since I have heard an EDS takeover rumor advance to the point of being reported semi-openly.  I wonder how reliable this rumor is.

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