SOA filling the Gaps

More than six years ago I wrote a post titled: Vendors Survival: Will EMC Survive until 2018?   The trigger for writing that post was an article by Jason Hiner, the Editor in Chief of Zdnet . According to Hiner " E MC, the world’s leading storage vendor, is flush with cash and has the opportunity to make a big move ". Hiner thought of two possible big moves: 1. Dell and EMC merge i.e EMC would buy Dell 2. Cisco buys VMware I thought that the two moves suggested by Hiner will not be realized in 2009.  AS far as EMC Survival was concerned, I thought that the keys for the company's survival until 2018 are keeping its leadership in the Storage market and adapting to Cloud Computing.  I do not know if Cisco will acquire VMware, but on October, 12, 2015, Dell announced a deal  with MSD and Silver Lake to buy EMC for  67 billion USD in Cash and stock .   VMware owned partially (80%) by EMC is excluded from the deal. The deal is the largest ...

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, ...