It is business as usual for #VMware, which will continue to operate independently when #Dell closes its acquisition deal with #EMC and remain part of the merged entity.
According to CEO Pat Gelsinger, VMware's operations would remain largely unchanged and unaffected whileDell and EMC themselves worked through restructuring and integration efforts for the two companies. EMC owns an estimated 80 percent stake in VMware.
Speaking at the company's Asean Media Summit this week in Bali, Indonesia, Gelsinger said the merger simply meant he was trading "an E for a D" where his major shareholder had shifted from EMC to Dell. "Nothing [else] has changed. Dell is committed to [VMware's] independence, ecosystem, and [revenue] acceleration," he said, adding that existing relationships with its hardware partners, including HPE, also remained unchanged.
He revealed that he had called #HPE CEO Meg Whitman immediately after the merger was publicly announced to assure her both companies' relationship would be unaffected.
Despite the assurance, however, Whitman sent an email to her employeespanning the Dell-EMC merger. There inevitably were questions about the impact on VMware's relationships with hardware vendors, the likes of #HPE, #IBM, and #Cisco, which might not be willing to continue their ties with VMware under Dell's parentage since these vendors were fierce competitors in the server market.
It, however, would be to the disadvantage of all market players to pull back support from each other's platforms, said Sandra Ng, IDC's Asia-Pacific group vice president of practice group. "Very few customers would rely on a single vendor because the marketplace today is too complex," she said in an interview with ZDNet, at the sidelines of the summit.
"A lot of queries we get [from enterprise customers] are about vendor sourcing and management...the market is very aware of the need for open innovation and multi-vendor sourcing" Ng said, adding that Dell and any other hardware vendor would want to support this ecosystem.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-ceo-biz-as-usual-no-spinoff-plans/
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