Rob Steele20
The merger agreement includes a 60-day 'go-shop' provision that allows EMC to solicit bids from other parties and pay a discounted breakup fee to Dell if a deal is made with another company, who else may try to make a bigger bid ? HP ? Cisco ?
Dave Vellante
I think Cisco would be the obvious contender but Robbins has said he's not interested - of course that could change
Phil Dunn
Cisco already (except for 10%) divorced from VCE, but HP certainly was interested. Need to wait till they become HP Enterprise next month..
Rob Steele
I think Cisco / EMC makes the best fit, if they can put aside their differences :) but not likely, unless EMC is willing to sell off specific product lines. Cisco needs a storage play and solidfire might be a fit, but EMC is a better fit.
Brian Gracely
unless Cisco changes their M&A stance from Chambers days, they would never make a large, bi-coastal acquisition.
Rob Steele
@bgracely I agree, but I mostly see Cisco and EMC in larger datacenters. The EMC and Cisco combo would supply best of breed solutions across the entire datacenter... but #pipedream
Phil Dunn
Customers don't want to buy best of breed products anymore. They want best of breed integrated/engineered solutions. The days of customers being integrators are numbered. Cloud is clearly driving demand of integration.
Rob Steele
@Phil_Dunn1 agreed! that's why I said "solutions" :)
John Furrier
Ian Gertler@IanGertler says @RobSteele @furrier re: Agreement includes 60-day 'go-shop' provision ... #dellemc > Not many that could compete w/ a $69 billion price tag.
Tony Castaldo
Cisco would be a natural IMHO