Dell announces acquisition of Quest Software for $2.4 Billion

[sirlancer]

I find this news interesting in light of Dell's February acquisition of backup and recovery startup Appassure software which competes directly with Quest Software's NetVault Backup. Seems a bit schizophrenic.

[mg2003]

Appassure was 50-100 million, Quest is 2.4 billion. They paid for a little bit more than just NetVault. Just a thought... Or maybe they're kicking themselves that they missed out on buying BakBone last year for ~50 million and are now paying the extra 2.35 billion to make sure they get NetVault too?

[Toshio]

So Dell's long-term plan is to become an enterprise software company, just like HP was planning at some point?

[mtgx]

Sounds like these companies are getting disrupted, and their natural intuition is to move up-market, which is a wrong move long-term if the whole PC market goes bust.