That’s interesting, a few days ago there was a posting that it was going in the opposite direction, that EMC was going to buyout VMWARE
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 2:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VMware is looking to buy-out it parent company - EMC porsche takeover volkswagen try is the most famous case of downstream takeover try, I think... ITschak ITschak Mugzach Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments Professional On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On 2015-08-05 19:53, Russell Witt wrote: > > This is actually weird. Even though EMC owns an 80% stake in VMware, > VMware > > is looking to buy-out EMC. Never heard of a down-stream merger. > > > > > http://fortune.com/2015/08/05/report-emc-considering-buyout-vmware/?xi > d=yahoo_fortune > > > Not too weird. In one case of which I know, a whale with an onerous > government charter arranged to be swallowed by a minnow with a much > more favorable charter. Of course the acquiring company got the > rights to the whale's trademarks and used them. By arrangement, the > officers of the vanishing company became officers of the merged > company. Etc. And the general public hardly knew. > > Gulp, > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
