I read from a pundit last night that EMC’s stake in VMWare is exactly what they’re mostly after.
*From:* [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker *Sent:* Friday, October 9, 2015 8:28 AM *To:* ntsysadm <[email protected]> *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] Can you say "consolidation"? I knew you could It's even worse than that, Don -- the merger/acquisition will likely compound the problems of each org. Even the best companies struggle to do massive integration well. Hopefully, they'll decide to spin off VMWare before they taint that as well. *ASB**http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market…* * GPG: *1AF3 EEC3 7C3C E88E B0EF 4319 8F28 A483 A182 EF3A On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Don Ely <[email protected]> wrote: I think what we are looking at here is a play into the converged/cloud stacks to join Cisco, HP and IBM at the party. Although probably late. I believe the larger issue at hand here is neither Dell or EMC are in the upper echelon of technology anymore. So Dell stays mediocre and EMC becomes more so as time goes on. On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:10 PM Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: Can you say "value to lawyers and bankers -- ONLY"? I knew you could. For the good of the universe, this potential deal needs to be scuttled with the swiftness. Of course, you'll hear a whole lot of analysts talking about the potential for "super synergy across the full spectrum of products" and "adding to the enterprise value chain," but all we'll get is longer IVR sequences, cancelled product lines, and mediocrity at a grander scale. *ASB**http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market…* * GPG: *1AF3 EEC3 7C3C E88E B0EF 4319 8F28 A483 A182 EF3A On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: Not a done deal yet, but... http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/business/dealbook/dell-is-said-to-be-in-talks-to-acquire-emc.html
