Steved once , the XRX Empire comes back - AAPL cloning opportunity ?
Once upon a time Xerox bought Scientific Data Systems to copy IBM's mainframes and failed . It developed desktop technology and abandoned it to AAPL instead of interfacing PCs with its office products and failed .
XRX reinvented itself . Now will it pick up where it left off ?
NEW YORK, April 27 Xerox Corp., (XRX - news) a name as synonymous with copiers as International Business Machines Corp. IBM has been with mainframe computers, is copying a page from IBM's strategy and refocusing its business beyond hardware.
Business at the new-look Xerox will focus on digital documents and information that travels over networks and the Internet, ...
"...If successful, the move would also help reverse the perception of Xerox as a failure in capitalizing on technological advances unrelated to copiers.
Xerox researchers in the 70s developed the first personal computer, the graphical user interface, mouse and Ethernet, the office network widely used today.
... said Thoman, ''We are now increasingly a digital business, we are now increasingly a network business...
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Deja Vu back all over again ?
Jim K. |
