We’re all curious what Dell and BMC are going to do now that they’re private. I hope a lot of “crazy” stuff, myself, otherwise: why go private?
Here are some comments from BMC’s VP Asia Pacific, Chip Salyards:
“With a publically traded company you are on these 90 day cycles so you can’t change from an on-premise model to a SaaS model. You are a little bit restricted in the investments made and how great you can make them.”
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“What we really needed to do as a company to get that next phase [of growth] was longer term investments … Our [private] investors want a bigger return [on their capital] … but knowing that they have to make some investments.”
This investment, Salyards said, would be in three main areas: cloud, big data, and SaaS. In addition, the company could also invest in its mainframe offerings. For instance, Salyards said the company would move to offer scheduling on mainframes using Hadoop.
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