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What EMC Really Wants with Data Domain: Page 2 of 2

The news of EMC's announcement of raising the stakes in the bidding war has the Data Domain stock holders smiling. What does EMC really want from Data Domain? It could be exactly what they say it is or it could be they have another motive; the destruction of their biggest competitor, NetApp.
George Crump
July 08, 2009

Whether EMC has this kind of motive in mind or not will take years to pan out. In the end of course only EMC knows what EMC wants with Data Domain. It could be as simple as wanting to make sure that their largest competitor does not get them, and they will deal with integration issues and the massive product overlap later.

NetApp's chances of not winning this deal are now greater than ever and as I stated earlier their next move is going to be critical. Fortunately for them and you, I will map the way for them in my next entry.

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