Interesting article, it points out that Xerox (thought 10 years behind) is trying to follow in the footsteps of IBM and get out of hardware and into services only. But as the author has pointed out, it didn’t work out so well for IBM.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13334896/1/why-does-xerox-want-to-copy-ibm-s-business-model.html