Dell on Monday announced it would acquire EMC in a deal valued at $67 billion, maintaining VMware as a publicly traded company. EMC shareholders will get $24.05 per share in cash, as well as 0.111 shares of new tracking stock per share of EMC linked to the company’s economic interest in the VMware business. Here is what I said in an interview with E-Commerce Times.

“Competition from the cloud could be a major threat as Dell and EMC are viewed as old-world companies. It feels like the marriage of a couple that met in a retirement home, and the groom is clearing out his 401K and selling off his assets to pay for the wedding.”

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