"It is fact that as Ricoh did indeed lay off employees, they went out and purchased IKON."
Yes, but which logical fallacy is occuring? Is it post hoc, where we falsely assume that because B followed A, A must have caused B, or is it Joint Effect, where B is held to have been caused by A when in fact A and B were the joint effects of another cause?
If Xerox had 3,000 ineffective workers, and it's hard to imagine a Fortune 500 company that doesn't, then the layoffs were appropriate. If ComDoc was available at a price that would allow it to deliver an above market rate of return, then the purchase was appropriate.
Paranoia, however, will cause us to embrace the fallacies...