Shouty investor Elliott makes PUBLIC CALL for VMware sale

Great

So Elliott bought a bunch of shares and now bullies the company in selling parts of the federation so they can cash out. What a nice gal.

Shouldn't be surprised if the Bostonians set his yacht on fire.

Total Fail... spin off would be the kiss of death.

So lets be clear. VMWare is a core component of Pivotal which is EMC's 'Green Stack'.

So it would mean spinning off Pivotal from EMC, where Pivotal is a separately run company already.

Take out VMWare, you weaken the stack and you end up losing money.

Spin off Pivotal, and you have even less of a reason to look at it compared to the other Hadoop distros.

(Not that anyone is taking Pivotal seriously... )

Ah... the buzz phases that mask the word "greed".

I'm of the opinion that if I owned a profitable company, I would rather rot in hell than go public and have to put up with the likes of Elliot and Icahn. Too many companies see the dollar signs of an IPO and give their control to the investors who eventually bit them in the naughty bits. I'm no fan of Zuck but he seems to be doing it right for now (stockwise) but sooner or later, the activists will come for his head.

What about us?

Disclosure - EMC employee (Europe)

As usual, these American capitalist aggressors pay no heed to any employee of the companies they try to rape & pillage. It seems the stock price is the only piece of measurable value they are interested in. It doesn't seem to matter about the future of anyone working in such targets. I'd suggest physical retaliation, but these bully boys are only greedily interested in the commission they make on the back of their "investors". What a sorry sad state of the world .....