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VC firm asked Mark Hurd if he wants to run Dell - report

Former disgraced HP chief Mark Hurd is the man VC Blackstone would plonk at the top of Dell should it scupper a bid by Michael Dell and chums to take the enterprise tech firm private again. This is according to a report by Bloomberg, which states Blackstone is considering matching the $24.4bn offered by Dell the man and his …

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FAIL

Correction

Don't you mean 'ruin'?

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FAIL

Re: Correction

Damn! You beat me to it.

I wonder if they also included a girlfriend in the deal?

Holmes

"Hurd has intimate knowledge of Dell"

fnar fnar

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Does today's news

mean he's finished what he set out to do at Oracle?

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Re: Does today's news

After reading Oracle's quarterly results from yesterday - particularly those from the hardware/Sun division, I'd say yes, mission accomplished at Oracle.

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Re: Does today's news

Not quite yet, but he needs an exit strategy for when he has.

Anonymous Coward

Hurd needs to check out Dell first.

Hurd will only take it on if the babe-count is high enough and the expense checking is suitably lax :-)

USP

Hurd's unique selling point is as a sexual predator willing to shortterm his way into a bonus by destroying r&d, e.g. a company's medium term viability.

Dell needs him the same way women executive do.

Mushroom

Bye bye Dell

Hasn't one trick pony Turd lined his pockets from other people's misery enough?

The CEO equivalent of Pol Pot.

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