Dell has acquired MessageOne, which makes email-management software, for $155 million in cash. One of the deal’s big beneficiaries is the Dell family.
MessageOne was co-founded by Adam Dell, Michael Dell’s lesser-known brother – to be fair, it’s hard to be the successful sibling when your brother is a billionare.
Family connections aside, why did Dell buy MessageOne?
In Dell’s case, the company’s core PC business has slowed and the company is looking for ways to boost profits. So it’s playing off the relationships it’s built selling tech equipment that businesses use in their data centers – the large corporate computing rooms – to try to sell services as well.
Via WSJ
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