With merger between HP and EDS, now is the expectation on the movement of other giant of this sector, Dell Computer
After any years loosing for it's competitors, the market pressure to get back the market share may take Dell to an important movement on this market
Follow IBM and HP looks obvious, but not probable. The sevice Market may become expensive and by consultings as Tata or Accenture may not be feasible.
With merger with EDS, HP open the possibility to Dell foccus on Hardware.
The options could be:
Acer --> Put Dell immediatlly on first position in market share, with more than 25% of the market and reinforce the Dell's retail strategy.The synergy between Dell and Acer could be a good reason for this merger.
Sun --> Reinforce the Dell's posiction on corporate segment with the entrance on RISC server market and Operational System (Solaris), what turn Dell to an important competitor on this segment. The synergy between Solaris and Oracle could help to increase the sales on this market.
Apple --> The most bold movement that could happen and could generate benefits for both companies.Apple could increase your productive capability and take advantages of Dell's direct sales structure. Dell could improve your retail strategy and improve your design capability.
But, the greatest advantage is on Operational System Area. With Mac OS running on X86 plataform, a merger between Dell and Apple would open possibility to sell MacOS as operational system for PC's, what will put Apple against Microsoft on this market, raising a new competitor for windows.
Lies, Lies, And Damn Lies
The HP takeover of EDS was a death sentance to EDS. CEO Ron Rittenmeyer was either intensily stupid to not see this coming, or he is incredibly evil, packing his own chute at the expense of 24,500 EDS personnnel layoff over the next 4 years.
Newsflash: HP has a reputation for doing this. HP really bought EDS to acquire the clients, in order to expand sales in hardware (aka in the market of cloud computing and data centers.)
Way to go EDS! You weren't growing in IT tech for the last decade... and like a senior citizen, you fell for the oldest "You've won the sweepstakes" trick in the world.
AT the end of the day, maybe 5% of your existing workforce will be retained to support HP's expansion plans (and not anything that EDS ever built)
Yep EDS service is "game over"
Too bad you didn't see that coming...(through process improvement and rigorous self evaluation.in years past)
SO sorry. Good luck out there.
In the mean time, Mark Hurd takes the prize for "best package shark" in the IT biz. IBM should be concerned...
PS IBM, don't get lulled into a hardware war with HP... Just drop you egos, and those stupid black- tie menatlities (...nobody cares how many patents you own) and get to work on sales. You already know what cloud computing is about... Start cranking out your best servers.
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