Dell has a bid of 2,32 billion dollars placed on the table in an attempt to Quest Software to take over. The overnameprooi, where Dell has for some time been on aast, is active in the development of server and management tools, especially for databases.
With the offer from Dell is an earlier bid worth $ 2.2 billion of the investment funds, Insight Venture Partners and Vector Capital, exceeded, reports Bloomberg. This seems to Dell all in our power to Quest Software in their hands. The company aims to acquire for some time on the software company, and has been for some time negotiations with Quest Software.
Dell wants more and more get rid of the image as a pc and server provider, and focuses increasingly on the provision of online services and cloudsoftware. In april, the company took one week, three companies active on the market for business cloud computing.
Also by Quest Software, a company that for 25 years, wants Dell more software tools can provide for the management of servers and databases. So can the tools from Quest Software deployed to Oracle databases to manage, while the company also has backup software is.