Shares in Xerox tumbled yesterday as Wall Street questioned the logic of the printing group's $5.6bn (€3.8bn) deal to buy Affiliated Computer Services, a leader in back-office outsourcing.
After Dell's purchase last week of Perot Systems and Hewlett-Packard's 2008 acquisition of EDS, yesterday's deal accelerated the move by technology hardware makers into services that offer a steadier source of revenue, particularly in economic downturns.
For Xerox, which has struggled with the transition to digital technology, the purchase of ACS will make it nearly as dependent on services as on hardware sales.
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