SOA filling the Gaps

This post is another post in the Vendors Survival series following posts on Microsoft , Google , HP and Sun . I read a post by Jason Hiner the Editor in Chief of TechRepublic in his Zdnet blog. The post presents 7 possible vendors' acquisitions and merges during 2009. EMC is a player in hypothesis number 1: Dell and EMC merge and in hypothesis number 2: Cisco buys Vmware . I do not think these two hypotheses will be realized. I do think that EMC management team will not make these two mistakes in 2009, if the company would like to survive until 2018. Why EMC should not sell Vmware? Jason Hiner wrote "EMC, the world’s leading storage vendor, is flush with cash and has the opportunity to make a big move". If a company has a big amount of cash, it should have a good reason for selling a company it owns. I do not find any reasonable Business Case for selling Vmware. It is true that Vmware is no longer the only leader in Virtualization functionality, ...