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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by aaronbrethorst on Monday October 12, 2015 @01:30AM (#10372728)
Meh, EMC has been a part of the walking dead for years. There were rumors a few months ago that VMware—a spinoff from EMC—was going to acquire EMC.

Dell doesn't care. They've been private for a couple years. No one's going to pummel their stock tomorrow morning.

Anyway, HP has much more to fear from HP than they do from the synergistic effects (lol) of Dell+EMC. HP is a total disaster, and is far more likely to kill itself off than die from consolidation around it.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by kbuck on Monday October 12, 2015 @04:17AM (#10373179)
Small correction: VMware isn't a spinoff of EMC, it's a subsidiary. VMware was originally founded in 1998 and acquired by EMC in 2004.
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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by geofft on Monday October 12, 2015 @06:10AM (#10373544)
My reading (and another comment implied the same thing) was that the rumors were that EMC would simultaneously spin off VMware and then get the rest of itself acquired by the newly-independent VMware. Here's a Re/Code analysis that got picked up by Fortune:

https://recode.net/2015/08/05/emc-considers-a-buyout-by-its-...

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by vonmoltke on Monday October 12, 2015 @10:37AM (#10374745)
Can't spin off a subsidiary that is already a separate, publicly-traded entity. VMWare is only a subsidiary because another corporation, and not a real person, owns a majority of the stock.
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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by aaronbrethorst on Monday October 12, 2015 @10:45AM (#10374800)
Ah interesting, I stand corrected
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