EMC was a giant tu-d before we acquired it. Its been nothing but a boat anchor with a bunch of inept salespeople who cant even sell their core product: storage.
We only wanted you for the VmWare acquisition.
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a clash of cultures was bound to fail, but that didn't matter bc EMC filled a need
Enterprise storage still has legs despite MDs determination to "make it look like a PC". Look at Pure, look at NetApp FFS. That was a ship I wished I'd jumped to. Missed that boat, messed up the migrant dingy that is AI
MD ruined EMC, and
EMC ruined Dell.
We all lost a lot in 2016, excepted for a handful of people at high levels of both organizations.
It was a glorified PC company with an amateur sales staff and management clueless about the enterprise buying a leading, but declining, enterprise storage company with an enterprise sales org with questionable ethics and massively arrogant management. The cultures continue to clash as Rome burns. Each company thinks they were better off without the other when the reality is that both were in decline.
Michael Dell promotes himself as a technologist, but he is not. He is a great business man who understand technology better than the average bear, but was never the techno geek he likes to portray. Assembling PCs from off the shelf parts in your dorm room does not make you an electrical engineer, and hitching your wagon to technology trends does not make you a visionary.
we all know the majority of acquisitions and mergers fail to achieve expected results
He made a $100B and had VMware pay for the deal.
It wasn't a merger. It was an acquisition. Big difference.