You may remember that we reported on a story in September, in which Dell made a bid to acquire Perot Systems. Today Dell announced that they have completed their $3.9 billion offer for the consulting service. Dell will now own more than 90 percent of Perot Systems.

The acquisition will create a new business unit known as Dell Services, which will offer IT services to customers. Dell will now be able to provide a number of new services including, technology hosting, consulting, and application outsourcing.

Former Perot CEO Peter Altabef will be president of dell services, and will report to Dell chairmen and CEO Michael Dell. Altabef stated “Dell Services will be a powerful organization with the extensive capabilities and global reach to address the needs of organizations of all types.”

Dell is planning to expand its IT services with their acquisition of Perot Systems. They expect the deal to be finalized very soon.

CNET

When Acer president Gianfranco Lanci stated that Acer would soon be surpassing dell in shipments, it was a statement that was perceived as more of a rumor than fact. We now know that the statement was correct, because the numbers were released Wednesday and they are clear! Acer has indeed surpassed Dell in number of PC’s shipped.

The numbers come to us via IDC PC tracker report, and they show that Acer has taken the number 2 slot for number of PC’s shipped. The number one spot is currently held by HP with 20.2 percent of PC’c shipped. Acer now is shipping 14 percent, and dell has dropped to 12.7 percent in PC shipments.

Acer was originally an obscure brand to consumers, until they purchased gateway and started selling netbooks, which eventually made them the third largest PC seller in the US. Loren Loverde, the program director of IDC’s PC Tracker stated “It’s a pretty amazing transition in market leadership by Acer.”

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In a move to expand their IT consulting services, Dell has purchased Perot Systems in a $3.9 billion dollar acquisition. Perot systems is an IT consulting/integrated service company founded in 1988 by Ross Perot.

Dell’s current servicing divisions will be absorbed by Perot Systems, and the current CEO, Peter Altabef will run the combined divisions. This move will give Dell more of an edge against companies like IBM that have had more of a head start in IT consulting services.

Both Dell and Perot Systems are located in Texas so the move should not be very difficult. Perot System brings in a total of $2.5 billion in revenue, which is small compared to Dell’s $61 billion. Dell may be able to bring these numbers up once they apply Perot Systems to their current enterprise customers but that remains to be decided.

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