It's All About the $850M EMC Socialized to the Street
EMC told the street that they would reduce expenses by $850M/year.
Easily done by consolidating duplicative Sales, Sales Ops, Finance, Marketing, Technical Marketing, Product Management, Competitive Intelligance Operations, M&A, Professional Services, Service Marketing, Portfolio, Delivery Operations, Customer Service, Customer Service Operations, IT, Human Resources, Legal, Accounting, Travel, Facilities... (help me here, I musta forgot something - lol )
When vmware was being resold more actively by IBM, HP, NetApp, name your vendor; it made sense to keep operations separate. But with more options on the street these days, it makes more sense to make EMC and Vmware one entity.
Customers will be happy with one Rep, one Message, one Contract, one Bill, and getting out of the middle of sales squabbles for account control - one throat to choke if you will.
Either EMC buys Vmware or Vmware buys EMC... keep the brands, cut the bureaucracy.
And the winners will be the customer, the stockholder, and the employees!!!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
