Should EMC and VMware separate?

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The theory of evolution for acquired companies.

Firstly all acquiring companies say they wont change anything -
ignore this. They need to keep the kitchen running while their
own chefs learn how to cook your recipes.

As an employee your chances of surviving in an acquired
company are inversely proportional to how closely aligned your
product or role is with the existing company.

If you are a middle manager , marketing HR or finance you will
probably go within one to two years depending on the size and
complexity of the acquisition.

Closely aligned products and roles can be learnt by the
existing teams so you can fire the acquired teams or treat them
with contempt so they leave. The existing teams make the
decisions about who the best people are and of course that is
the existing teams. Typically of course the people with the
most knowledge in the acquired products are the ones that
leave or get cut so the products die shortly after even though
they are aligned.

For the non-aligned products you have to keep the teams because
storage people cant learn the technology easily.

This is true for EMC. Nearly all of the VMware and Documentum
expertise and people continue to survive and prosper inside EMC
and the products are doing well. The same cannot be said for
Dantz and Legato despite a much more obvious alignment.

Posted by: noteapot   Posted on: 01/19/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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