{"id":3284,"date":"2009-09-28T12:18:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2009-09-28T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:18:49","slug":"xerox-adds-business-services-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/28\/xerox-adds-business-services-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Xerox adds business-services provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3287\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/09\/Xerox-logo1-150x103.jpg\" alt=\"Xerox logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"103\" \/>Following other tech giants in bolstering revenue from services, Xerox has agreed to <a title=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aZ3hN2yWpv0s\" target=\"_blank\">buy<\/a> Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., for $6.4 billion.\u00a0 School of Management Prof. <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, chair of the Information systems Department, says the move was a competitive necessity.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The premium seems a bit high, but the acquisition gives Xerox decent scale to compete against HP, CSC and others.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following other tech giants in bolstering revenue from services, Xerox has agreed to buy Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., for $6.4 billion.\u00a0 School of Management Prof. N. Venkat Venkatraman, chair of the Information systems Department, says the move was a competitive necessity. &#8220;The premium seems a bit high, but the acquisition gives Xerox decent scale to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}