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Since EMC has been a known target for aquisition (and this has nothing to do with virtualization), some have suggested the VMWare purchase might actually be a poison pill/protective measure to keep Microsoft at bay. I am personally not sure if the virtualization market is either large or defined enough where anyone cares that much about "controlling" it as such, or if our government (ftc, sec) would care enough if the issue were later raised. Since EMC already has such close relationships with Microsoft, it would seem strange that EMC would want to fend off a Microsoft aquisition, so maybe it's unrelated as claimed or more likely they are being used to do some dirty work in a minor but strategic market.

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