They would own the datacenter, theoretically.  People could come to Dell, and Dell would supply all of the hardware, from the storage to the virtualization to the servers.  With VMWare owning Nicira, I guess that also including the virtual networking as well.  It could be a compelling story, except IBM has already talked about how datacenter sales have dropped, so the US at least is probably overcapacity at this point.  Bad timing, but not unexpected for a company like Dell, some this knuckle-headed is expected more from HP.<p>The funny thing is, virtualization is dying.  All of the large private datacenters these days are non-virtualized bare metal on commodity hardware.  Virtualization is an unnecessary overhead when it comes to datacenters these days.  And enterprise storage is also not &quot;web scale&quot; since it&#x27;s faster to shard data across 100k servers than have a single huge database with a single point of failure.