So saddle all the legacy liabilities in with the legacy business and slowly suck out the equity, while the flash business grows? I can see how that's a win for investors at least. Are the flash products still going to be branded WD?
They need to come up with a good name for the flash business. Maybe something that indicates their products are like disks, but made from silicon instead of spinning rust. SiliconDisk? Maybe Sand-Disk? Or simplify that to Sandisk?
Usually stock investors don't like diversification within companies. It is harder to value.<p>I think that they realized that there is not so much in common between the HDD and flash business. No added value to own the 2 business compared to separated entities.<p>With that, the WD legacy HDD business can continue as a dividend stock dying slowly.
And the flash business can now pretend to crazy valuations based on a shinny future.