Although this merger seems to be mostly about infrastructure, I wonder how it will impact applications groups (documentum, captiva, etc) within the organization - there doesn't really seem to be a well defined place for them<p>(disclosure - I've spent most of my career competing with documentum, but I'm not anymore - I'm genuinely interested to see where they end up)
"The next step... is to merge the different components by using basic computers and have software turn it into servers, storage devices or routers as needed."<p>This statement is rather enticing because I have been executing this exact process for years using one of the free, open source kernel/userland options available for download. The "OS" is kept small and runs entirely in RAM. Works well enough for my purposes.<p>It is also interesting to juxtapose this statement against the usual negative comments on HN anytime the discussion turns to building home routers using "basic computers".<p>But maybe the meaning of "basic computers" by the journalist here is not what I think it is.
Well it was nice knowing all you Dell employees!<p>They tried this before with Ionix (ugh) and it was an unmitigated disaster. At the same time they bought Spring, and had absolutely no idea what to do with it, so they spun it off. Anyone who says that Joe Tucci has a good track record of acquiring companies and letting them go about their business doesn't know what they are talking about.
Not sure i get the cloud play here, are they trying to cater to people building their own private clouds, or are they planning to start from scratch and build an AWS competitor ?<p>Either plan seems like a poor one for 67B.
Yet another cloud giant. The competition is over that direction. However, this is more to the Capex side. IBM moves to the services, Google and MS, as well. We will see how it will become.