Dell Acquisition: What Will It Mean for Dell’s Cloud Strategy?
February 6, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
The rumors of Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) being acquired are true. Michael Dell has teamed up with Silver Lake and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to fund a $24.4 billion takeover of the company he founded in 1984 in an effort to take the company out of the public trading space and back into private hands.
Our sister site, The VAR Guy, provides analysis on what this deal will mean for Dell and the community of channel partners it has built up over the last few years, but what about the cloud? Should the deal go through and the company return to being a private company under control of Michael Dell and Silver Lake, with a minority share being held by Microsoft (which is lending $2 billion to the deal), what might happen to the company’s ever-growing cloud strategy?…
With Microsoft contributing a significant sum to the buyout total, it’s easy to speculate the company could exert some influence on Dell’s cloud strategy, possibly with a stronger focus on Office 365. But as Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, noted in his Weekly Review newsletter, such pressure could provide consequences for both companies…
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