[Info-vax] Rumor of EMC shopping itself to hp

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> Stephen Hoffman
> Sent: 24-Sep-14 10:24 AM
> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Rumor of EMC shopping itself to hp
> 
> On 2014-09-24 13:10:58 +0000, Scott Dorsey said:
> 
> > Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> >> Folks that manufacture bricks have different skills, tools,
> >> specializations and cost-models than do the folks that use those bricks
> >>  to build structures.
> > DEC had both of them.  But Seagate got the brick people and I don't
> know
> > WHAT happened to StorageWorks.
> 
> DEC got out of the disk brick and the tape brick business manufacturing
> when that became a commodity.
> 
> HP has a storage business, and does still has the StorageWorks brand,
> though the StorageWorks nomenclature has seemingly been largely
> replaced by newer HP marketing.
> 
> 
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Interesting item - since I believe VMware is a somewhat arm's length 
subsidiary of EMC, what would a merger this do to that part of the 
business?

I expect VMware would likely be spun-off as a separate company to
reduce the overall cost, but?

:-)

Regards,

Kerry Main
Back to the Future IT Inc.
 .. Learning from the past to plan the future

Kerry dot main at backtothefutureit dot com