This would mean that both EDS and Perot would cease to exist as stand-along companies. So much for Ross Perot I guess.
There is a book just waiting to be written on how this all works out. I have a hard time understanding how two such different kinds of businesses can be made to act with anything like real team work. The difference between hardware orientation and service/integrator is very, very large. Also, of course, Dell strikes me as a straightforward company. EDS was simply not like that. And I’m being very kind.
Surely all these things have been considered at length by Dell. And good luck to them.
He's 79. He's a crazy little guy who made a fortune.
Nah, looks like Perot is getting ready for a new start. He built EDS, sold it off, made a ton of cash, then started Perot Systems. He may be thinking PS got too big and isn’t a challenge anymore, and he wants to do it again.
At 79 I think Ross has pretty much turned a lot of the management etc over to his son. They still other stuff such as the Alliance Airport project out of Fort Worth.
While politically speaking, I'm no fan of Perot, as a former EDSer, I have to say that Perot has been wildly successful. He built both companies and sold them for vast fortunes. He almost got complete control of GM long before it became Government Motors. If he had won (GM), who knows, Maybe he could have saved them! And who can blame him for not liking the New World Order Bushes?
;-/