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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by momokoko on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:41PM (#20774140)
Financial engineering at the highest level. Dell will be studied and admired for decades.
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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by RachelF on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:04AM (#20774650)
Dell is already studied as a case of corruption.

"Intel paid Dell in the form of rebates as part of an agreement to ensure that Dell would not use computer chips made by Advanced Micro Devices in its personal computers and computer servers, according to the civil charges."[1]

Dell paid the SEC $100 million in penalties, Intel $1.45 billion.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/business/23dell.html

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by scarface74 on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:09AM (#20776637)
Intel paid all major PC vendors to advertise “Intel inside” and add stickers.

Famously, Apple has always refused.

https://youtu.be/COAOknlfMgI

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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by rasz on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:29AM (#20778625)
$1.45 billion was European Commission (EC), and Intel not only never paid that, but actually managed to fight and bribe their way to possibility of overturning it altogether. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/06/victory-in...
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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by zymhan on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:53AM (#20778867)
Yeah my Dell account manager was good at acting clueless about this history when we discussed Dell's lack of AMD servers.
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Re:VMware Acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B by kmlx on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:24AM (#20774968)
from the year 2010
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