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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Thursday 21st March 2013 17:09 GMT Mike Smith

Correction

Don't you mean 'ruin'?

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1. Thursday 21st March 2013 18:01 GMT ecofeco
  
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  Damn! You beat me to it.
  
  I wonder if they also included a girlfriend in the deal?
  
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Thursday 21st March 2013 17:35 GMT Mr Nobody 1

"Hurd has intimate knowledge of Dell"

fnar fnar

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Thursday 21st March 2013 17:40 GMT Dazed and Confused

Does today's news

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

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1. Thursday 21st March 2013 17:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  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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2. Friday 22nd March 2013 11:53 GMT Tom 13
  
  Re: Does today's news
  
  Not quite yet, but he needs an exit strategy for when he has.
  
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Thursday 21st March 2013 18:39 GMT 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 :-)

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Friday 22nd March 2013 06:58 GMT Sil

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.

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Sunday 24th March 2013 16:14 GMT Miss Lincolnshire

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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