For Sally….
Today Dell announced that it has made a $67B bid to buy EMC. In the last year this would have given the new company a market share of 2.0% of the total $3.8T IT market – jumping over Microsoft into fifth place.
You’ll want to learn more about the implications. In the Figure we combine the revenues of Dell, EMC and VMware to produce the shares for the proposed new company – named ‘Dell*’ here. See our earlier analysis of Dell’s strategy. Read more »