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Most of EMC's current value is thought to be based on VMWare. So they've always been hesitant to sell VMWare as a result.

Apparently the VMware-Cisco SDN competition is hurting EMC-Cisco storage partnerships.

" HP Consumer and HP Enterprise have of course mutually exclusive customer bases"

I would have thought there was a lot of overlap. Don't people who have HP Laptops/Desktops and Printers also have HP Servers?

There is, except that there it's no money in PCs anymore, and print is a low/no growth business.