[At $67 billion, it is the biggest corporate marriage in the
information-technology (IT) industry ever. It is also emblematic
of a divide running through the IT sector. Dell and EMC are members
of an old guard, which is scrambling to regroup in the face of the biggest
shift in the industry since smaller, networked machines dethroned
mainframe computers in the early 1990s. ]
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