Article: United States : Xerox agrees to buy Dallas-based ACS in $6.4B deal.

With the announcement Monday that Xerox Corp. is buying Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc. in a deal valued at $6.4 billion, the big three local outsourcing companies are all presumably ending their lives as stand-alone entities.

For the Dallas area, where the outsourcing industry was born nearly half a century ago, it means the almost simultaneous disappearance of three iconic corporate names: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Perot Systems Corp. and now ACS.

Xerox and ACS said Monday that, at least initially, little would change at ACS.

It will operate as a separate division under the name "ACS, a Xerox Company," much as EDS did ...

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