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In case you didn’t see the articles by Chris Mellor or Jean-Jacques Maleval, Dell looks likely to be picking up the IP of Exanet for $12M.  Investors had already pumped $70M into Exanet to produce a file system/NAS clustering technology, but the company applied for Chapter 7 in December, having failed to ink a $20M investment arrangement from, you guessed it, Dell. I’m

Sorry I wasn't able to weigh in when this happened last week .  The good news: the more I think about it, the more I find this particular acquisition absolutely fascinating. The usual disclaimer: I'm offering my own opinions, and not speaking officially on behalf of VMware, EMC, SpringSource or any other company for that matter. But, despite the disclaimer, many of us think this is pretty darn cool.

Looks like Larry is adding yet another jewel to his mainframe wannabe.  He already made several strategic acquistions that have netted him one of the leading ERP software vendors and one of the big six hardware vendors.  Now he is buying…um…a certain server virtualization company that I am not sure I can name yet.  Their