If it happens as reported, Dell's disappearance from the realm of public reporting will remove one of this author's favorite examples of how nobody besides Microsoft makes long-term money on the products. Not that there aren't armies of folks selling services to people who can't run Microsoft-powered machines on their own, but the hardware isn't a place many manage to make money outside Microsoft.
Of course, if Microsoft pitches in billions to finance the going-private deal, Dell won't be able to make money outside Microsoft: it'll be Microsoft. Microsoft will get the advantage of Dell's existing high-scale production and its supply-chain contacts, and other hardware vendors will be scrambling for an answer to even more direct competition against Redmond.
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