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Dell is Considering a Sale To VMware in What May Be Tech's Biggest Deal Ever (cnbc.com)
CNBC reports: Dell Technologies could emerge as a public company through a reverse-merger with VMware, the $60 billion cloud computing company it already controls, according to people familiar with the matter. The reverse merger, whereby VMware would actually buy the larger Dell, would then allow Dell to be traded publicly without going through a formal listing. It would also likely be the biggest deal in tech industry history, giving investors who backed Dell's move to go private in 2013 a way to monetize their deal, while helping Dell pay down some of its approximately $50 billion debt.
Because it allows the company to put more money in resources that make more money.
Lets say you have a Lemonade stand.
That sold Lemonade, and Cookies.
Every glass of Lemonade makes a profit of $0.50
Every cookie makes a profit of $0.25
You find that Customers will buy a glass of Lemonade or a Cookie but rarely both.
So lets say on average you make $75.00 a day on that one stand.
Now your line at your stand is very long, so there are people leaving the line or just not waiting.
You need to have an other stand, but you do not have the money to make a new stand and man it.
So you sell your cookie recipe and rights to it for the cost of making a new stand plus some extra for an other employee.
So now you can sell twice as much Lemonade as before, even at the expense of not having cookie sales. You end up with more money.
Because you will now make $100.00 a day for each stand, with 2 stands you make $200.00 a day.
So by selling off a profitable item and reinvesting its money, you now have 2.5 times the profit.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Jesus, people still harp on this "Corporations are people" bullshit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Read that and try to rationally argue against it. The very first paragraph should shut your whining up but god forbid people actually educate themselves and understand what "personhood" actually means in legal terms.
FFS its a tired ass argument with zero merit and a shit ton of FUD behind it.