HP EDS Merger Echoes IBM and PwC
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With HP and EDS looking at a $13.9 billion merger, there's a lot of speculation as to whether or not these two behemoths can successfully integrate their businesses. Ben Worthen wrote on the Wall Street Journal blogs about the three reasons that the deal might fail. It's true that HP's core business has historically been hardware and EDS has been a software-independent consulting firm, however this isn't necessarily a bad omen for the deal.
In fact, while this is quite a massive deal in terms of market cap, it's not really a daring move in the least. Six years ago in ...
