All of your examples seem to lack a lot of context.  Yes, these companies are all under pressure.   But most of them are still in slow growth and working hard at it.  There is also quite a bit of innovation in these places.  The problem is the market model is changing - that innovation (cloud) undermines everything else.<p>Their biggest liability is their customer base that IS NOT changing and continues to pay for these products.  I see guys everywhere trying to cajole customers down the cloud path because they&#x27;d rather be at the seat of that inevitable transition than pushed out.  Many customers don&#x27;t want to.  So they&#x27;re stuck doing the old thing that&#x27;s dying and the new thing is being done by smaller customers that wouldn&#x27;t even consider them.<p>The story of if&#x2F;how they fail or rise again will be a lot more complicated than you are suggesting.  Keep in mind Apple was near bankruptcy 18 years ago.<p>Example - EMC.  I&#x27;m not sure what you&#x27;re talking about, there are a lot of products. Isilon is  distributed storage and selling like mad.  ScaleIO is free for anyone to use unsupported and a distributed Elastic Block Store.  VxRack is scale out compute and storage.  XtremIO sells more and is growing at pace with Pure (which just went public).  Dell in swallowing them up which seems like the least worst option given Elliott is at their back and HP would be a death sentence.  (I don&#x27;t work at EMC, but a subsidiary and have some knowledge of how they work and sell.)