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DELL EMC Acquires VMware

On January 9, 2004, DELL EMC acquired internet software and services company VMware for 625M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is DELL EMC’s 1st transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 6th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 12th transaction in the United States.
  • This is DELL EMC’s 5th transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • VMware was sold to a strategic buyer in 2007.
  • VMware was sold to a strategic buyer in 2022 for 61.0B USD.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2004-01-09
Target VMware
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) DELL EMC
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 625M USD

Target

VMware

Palo Alto, California, United States
VMware office in Broomfield, Colorado.
VMware office in Broomfield, Colorado.
VMware is a provider of technologies designed to establish secure and reliable IT environments and address a range of complex IT challenges that include cost reduction, operational inefficiencies, access to cloud computing capacity, business continuity and corporate end-user computing device management. VMware's solutions enable organizations to aggregate multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks together into shared pools of capacity that can be allocated dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed. These internal computing infrastructures can be dynamically extended by customers to the public cloud environment. VMware was formed in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

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Buyer

DELL EMC

Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States
Category Company
Founded 1979
Sector Information Technology
Employees63,900
Revenue 24.4B USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION
EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC, formerly EMC Corp., was established in 1979 and is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 13 of 68
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 1 of 13
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 12 of 67
State: California M&A 5 of 24
Country: United States M&A 12 of 61
Year: 2004 M&A 1 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 6 of 25
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-12-18 Documentum

Pleasanton, California, United States

Documentum, Inc. is an enterprise content management platform, now delivered by EMC Corporation, as well as the name of the software company that originally developed the technology.

Buy $1.7B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-10-12 Dantz Development

Walnut Creek, California, United States

Dantz Development Corp. a privately held supplier of backup and recovery software for small and midsize businesses (SMB). The company makes Retrospect backup software.

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