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> services 98% of all fortune 500 companies.

So it's a short list of ten for the other 2%. IBM, HP, ... ??

(Clarification: the ten who don't buy from Dell+EMC. Just curious about that. Direct competitors is my first guess ...)

No, because large companies buy computing goods and services from more than one business. There will be significant overlap.

They service those companies as well. Most of the fortune 500 don't buy one server or one storage system. They buy many of everything, and reward the best vendors with larger portions of their data centers, not exclusivity.

It wouldn't be uncommon for a Fortune 500 to have no Dell or EMC.

It would be a very unusual Fortune 500 that has no VMWare.

Alphabet? I dont think they have any dell, emc, or vmware equipment.

They're pretty unusual.

I'm not sure why you got downvoted - the number of companies that are in the Fortune 500 and would run purely with KVM, Xen, or other non-VMWare hypervisors is pretty small.

"Any" is a strong claim. Alphabet has 60,000+ employees across dozens of divisions and subsidiaries, many of which came through acquisition. It's extremely unlikely that nobody, in any of these groups, is using a Dell server or one of EMC's fifty different models of storage arrays. (Or, to be somewhat ridiculous about it, using a Dell monitor or laptop.)

Or running VMWare Fusion.

While at Google, I worked on a Dell workstation. Not everything must be 'n datacenters.

HDS (Hitachi Data Systems). Average guy on the street may never have heard of them, but they sell a ton of storage to Fortune 500.

IBM is primarily a services company aren't they?

For the most part our services compliment our products. You could argue we're a products company that also offers services, or a service company that offers products. Either way, I work in services supporting an in-house product. So at the least, we have both.

AAPL.

This was reported a few years ago and may no longer be the case but they have aparently bought EMC storage in the past - http://www.crn.com/news/storage/229401100/report-apple-buys-...

I believe iCloud runs on Isilon

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