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Cisco Chairman John Chambers on Dell-EMC “strategic merger”

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At Internet of Things World Forum in Dubai, UAE, Cisco Chairman John Chambers answers EITN’s question about his view of Dell acquiring EMC.

He diplomatically calls it a strategic merger instead.

At timestamp 00.43 secs, he says,

We don’t have the courage to combine mergers of equal size and dramatically different cultures and geographies. I have a lot of respect for Joe Tucci and Michael Dell, but it is just something that we have found to be very, very difficult.

He also clarified what he meant by the top big IT companies.

For him, these are Microsoft, Oracle, HP, IBM, Cisco. He said,

Dell and EMC would have been included 2 to 3 years ago, but not now.

Cat Yong
Cat Yong
Cat Yong is Editor-in-Chief of Enterprise IT News, a regional news website which began in Malaysia circa 2011. A common theme in all of her work - opinions, analysis, features and more - is how technology and innovation drives business and outcomes. A career tech journalist for 22 years, her work has evolved to also encompass narratives of tech powering human potential.

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