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News Rumour points to $53 billion Dell EMC acquisition

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Gareth Halfacree, 12 Oct 2015.

  1. Gareth Halfacree

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    "EMC Croproation"...brain moving faster than fingers? ;)

    It's strange to see EMC the target of an acquisition bid - they've been on a major buying spree since about 2000 and have bought something like 50 companies in the last 10-15 years, including a few most people would know about (like Iomega and RSA). I worked with them (and a few of the companies they subsequently took over) when they were the go-to guys for storage solutions - in the days when a terabyte would cost tens of thousands, and most companies couldn't think of a time when they'd need as much as a terabyte of storage...:D
     
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    You're lucky I didn't expand it as the Ellingson Mineral Corporation - hack the planet! (I'll go fix, ta!)
     
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    Update: Dell and EMC have issued a joint statement confirming the acquisition, which values EMC at an impressive $67 billion. Michael Dell is to become chair and chief executive of the joint firm.
     
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    Would it be safe to assume, then, that Dell may be moving away from desktop PCs and focusing more on a corporate focus with servers and back-end systems? The EMC acquisition would seem to suggest that perhaps Dell is wanting to move back to the days of being a one-stop shop of all corporate IT ("Nobody ever got sacked for buying Dell"?)
     
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    I think you have to ask what's the cloud strategy. Can they put together a plausible cloud offering or are they just going to circle the wagons around old tech and fight over the scraps.
     
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    EMC already has some cloud companies in its portfolio, so I'd say they're covered. The biggest problem is that doesn't include VMWare, who will remain independent...
     
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    It's not *fully* independent: they're not taking it private, but after EMC acquired VMware it sold only 15 per cent as an initial public offering - which means that DellMC, or whatever we're going to call the new joint company, still owns 85 per cent of VMware. It's a subsidiary, whether or not it's publicly traded.
     
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    Thanks for the clarification - that bit hadn't been mentioned in any of the other articles I read.

    So, it looks like EMell have the cloud covered, as well as storage & storage management, document & content management and security, as well as a handful of other sectors - all in one nicely convenient purchase.
     

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