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Coverage: “several private equity firms, including KRR, Apollo Global Management and the Carlyle Group, are looking to pay $40 billion or more to buy HPE outright”
Bill Hilf out of HPE, another cloud re-org at HPE
Let’s compare: IBM, Oracle, EMC/Dell, even Verizon/Yahoo! - big tech companies surviving long term.
Meanwhile: rumors of Rackspace going private.