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By zarathus (Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:34:47 AM EST) (all tags)

And just how is this not a sweetheart deal?

How much weight do you think the FTC gives to the fact that this deal involves a lot of money moving among the members of the Dell family? I admit that I'm pleasantly surprised to see the details of how each family member will benefit spelled out in this (and other) articles on the 'net.

When I read the first headline about this deal, I thought MessageOne might be an obscure cellular carrier but as I scanned the first paragraph, I realized I had heard of the company before. In fact, during '07 when I was seriously searching for a job, some openings at MessageOne showed up in my searches. I never applied with them since all the positions involved being on call and didn't pay as much as I wanted.

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We thought about by blixco (4.00 / 1) #1 Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 11:25:59 AM EST

using MessageOne to backup our email server. If anyone needs a live email backup, it's us.

I think we're going to do it in-house, though.
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: You work in the White House? by Rogerborg (4.00 / 1) #3 Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 03:37:26 AM EST

Oh... perhaps I'm discomprehending "need".

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Message One by Gedvondur (2.00 / 0) #2 Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 11:36:17 AM EST

Is a mid-market player in the SaaS market for email, email security and archiving. Email archiving for the purposes of legal discovery becoming a huge issue and there are currently a hundred little companies with pieces of that pie as well as several large ones like EMC and CA. This is part of a consolidation trend in the email archiving market that I think will accelerate over the next 20 months.

Dell lacks many of the software offerings that make IBM or HP appealing and this is part if their plan to fix that.

It's unusual for Dell, as they normally do not acquire companies. It seems to be a new Dell strategy as they have acquired several companies including one of my favorite little iSCSI vendors, Equallogic.

As to this being a "family" transaction, the Dells acted responsibly and even obtained an outside opinion on the matter. I don't see any problem with that.

Gedvondur
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