Tucci’s terrible dilemma: Unlock EMC value without destroying the Federation

Bzzzt.

Picture reminds me of Jeff Goldblum.

I will fetch my warm woolen front buttoned outer garment.

fly flight

In general the life average of a fly is from 15 to 25 days, I believe that will be necessary to wait more to hear something significant in the room of meetings of EMC, it can that the 1 November (division HP) something interesting is heard.

Pointless

I'm all for running through the "what if" scenarios but let's take a step back and think about what makes common sense. EMC is a company who's fundamental purpose is, in order of priority: 1) to make/provide things that customers want, and 2) make money doing it. Ellliot's sole purpose is to make more money, period. Nothing else matters. This is where the basic disconnect lies.

If EMC's sacrifices the ability to please customers, make their lives easier, provide a better solution, etc...at the expense of making SLIGHTLY MORE money, then eventually customers will go elsewhere. If customers go elsewhere EMC over time will falter.

EMC knows this and knows that if they become anything but a customer-focused company, customers will falter and therefore they will falter. Running through all the crazy scenarios where EMC can extract a little more money for the sake of pleasing a ~1% investor with no real interest in the customer, while fun, is a pointless waste of time. That doesn't mean EMC can't become more efficient, but the customer rules, not the activist investor.