Dell to acquire EMC in $67 billion record tech deal

By By Greg Roumeliotis and Jim Finkle | Reuters – 53 minutes ago
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TheRighteousHand  •  1 hour 37 minutes ago Report Abuse

I thought the US has a anti-monopoly law? The way it is heading, this deal looks like the creation of a gigantua monopoly in the making.

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  Guest  •  1 hour 12 minutes ago Report Abuse
  

  By no definition is this a monopoly. There are many options for both storage and computing platforms available.
  
  You might want to look up the definition of the word "monopoly" before you use it incorrectly again.

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  ricky l • a second agoRemove
  

  For storage business - there are quite a number of competitors.
  
  (1) Dell with Dell compellant etc.
  (2) EMC
  (3) NetApp
  (4) IBM eg. DS storage series
  (5) HP Eva, PAR etc.
  (6) Hitachi HDS
  etc
  
  VMware server virtualisation, SDN, network virtualisation NSX. VXLAN, vCloud - there are also quite a no. of competitors out there in the market :-
  
  (1) Microsoft HyperV server vitualisation, Cloud OS. Azure cloud
  (2) Cisco SDN - Nexus 9000V ACI
  (3) Redhat Linux virtualisation
  (4) Other proprietary cloud platform offered by Cloud Service Providers - eg. Salesforce, Amazon, Google etc.
  
  Thus important for Dell to let VMWare alone to reach out to their cliente - and not insist to bundle all Dell products with VMware - or no deal at all.
  
  Else Dell will lose more sales - as many customers want best-of-breed - not all-in-one breed.

  
  

  

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  ricky l • a second agoRemove

  In other words, Dell is not good in every technology and customers want to cherry pick.
  
  Eg. customer may want to buy a few technology from dell and other technology from other vendors - best-of-breed.
  
  Dell should not pressure customer to take all - or else pay hefty price for selective products.
  Then Dell will lose big.