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Dell and EMC will officially merge next Wednesday – September 7 – after getting approval from Chinese monopoly officials. The combined tech monster will have 140,000 staffers worldwide, and will be called Dell Technologies with Michael Dell as CEO and chairman. A little final financial chicanery is needed because Dell is a …

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  1. Nate Amsden

    so,

    what does DVMT stand for ? Dell something something technologies..

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: so,

      DVMT=

      Dell's Many Varied Technologies?

      Doing Massive Volume Transactions?

      Data Volumes, Many Terabytes?

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      1. GrapeBunch
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        Re: so,

        Dell Virtual Machine Technologies ?

        Is it possible that VMware could just make us a PC operating system. You know, a proper operating system. And we could forget this Windows-Inquisition?

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    2. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: so,

      It's to track EMC's stake in VMware after the EMC ticker is suspended, Dell being a privately owned biz an' all.

      C.

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    3. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: so,

      Deep Vein Thrombosis - what will happen to most of R&D in EMC. The stellar examples of what happened to Forece10 and other prior Mike's shopping sprees are self-explanatory.

      Just what the M stands for is unclear.

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      1. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge
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        Re: so,

        @AC

        Deep Vein Thrombosis

        I was thinking along the same line and needed to cover the M...

        Deep Vein (Mega) Thrombosis

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    4. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: so,

      Dell's Vagina Makes Tacos.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Devil

    So...

    Now we're on the highway to Dell?

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    something like Denali VM(ware) Tracking, I'd guess

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