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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by xigency on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:10PM (#20773554)
For mobile:

> Under the terms of the transaction, Pivotal's Class A common stockholders will receive $15.00 per share cash for each share held, and Pivotal's Class B common stockholder, Dell Technologies, will receive approximately 7.2 million shares of VMware Class B common stock, at an exchange ratio of 0.0550 shares of VMware Class B common stock for each share of Pivotal Class B common stock. This transaction, in aggregate, results in an expected net cash payout for VMware of $0.8 billion. The impact of equity issued to Dell Technologies would increase its ownership stake in VMware by approximately 0.34 percentage points to 81.09% based on the shares currently outstanding. VMware currently holds 15 percent of fully-diluted outstanding shares of Pivotal. The transaction is expected to be funded through cash on the balance sheet, accessing short-term borrowing capacity, and approximately 7.2 million shares of VMware Class B common stock to Dell.

Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by gigatexal on Thursday August 22, 2019 @08:22PM (#20773621)
Thank you!
Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by tru3_power on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:20PM (#20774283)
Can anyone here chime in and explain what the purpose is of this?
Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by y2kenny on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:36PM (#20774335)
The fixed line break probably make reading difficult on a small, narrow, variable width screen such as mobile.
Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by mcnichol on Friday August 23, 2019 @06:45AM (#20776181)
The 21st century equivalent of "Who's on First"
Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by techpop10 on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:45AM (#20792647)
Ultimately, this transfers shares to Dell that, most likely, provides liquidity that could be used to pay a little bit of their massive debt ($56B) that is choking them. Dell is in financial trouble. See https://seekingalpha.com/article/4278101-dell-technologies-m...
Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by dmix on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:06AM (#20774437)
The stock arrangement?
Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by raviolo on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:27PM (#20773872)
This is why I enjoy HN community
Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by techslave on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:38PM (#20774340)
because of the ability to quote TFA?

personally i enjoy it because of insightful comments

Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by Vosporos on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:52AM (#20777601)
hahaha good one
Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by maimeowmeow on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:09AM (#20776285)
absolutly not