How Will The Consolidation Wave Play Out?
Consolidation among integrators and vendors with strong public sector interests -- HP buys EDS, Dell buys Perot Systems, Xerox buys Affiliated Computer Services -- has continued through the past year.
With many of those bigger buys having just closed within the past few months (or, in HP's case, become the focus of a major, 9,000-jobs-affecting overhaul), their impact on the broader market will be playing out this year and next, with fiercer competition for contracts and more frequent clashes between integrator giants vying for pockets of health care and government ducats.
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