TCE: The Secret Sauce EMC Brought to the Dell Merger

A number of aspects about the #Dell - #EMC merger are unusual. First, Dell is private while EMC is a larger public company, and the resulting company will be private. To my knowledge this is the largest private acquisition of a public company in the technology sector. Once the merger is complete, the resulting company will rival IBM at its peak in the 1980s. Dell uses a process for mergers that was developed at #IBM and refined at Dell, which, as far as I know, still has the best merger track record of any tech company. EMC’s record is nearly as good, but they are far more creative with regard to structure, having everything from wholly-owned subsidiaries to majority-owned subsidiaries and even joint ventures in their portfolio