With the way the names are listed in the article and my understanding of the word "respectively" Silver Lake is the 2 billion dollar investor not Micro$oft.

Something about this just makes a little voice in my head think of videos i want on youtoob that simply say full of fail...

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Michael Dell will roll over his 16 percent stake of the company and will invest some of his own money, but the deal clearly is heavily leveraged - the largest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis rocked the business world.

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Heavily leveraged... Hmm that means he will be able to gamble with stock holder's money? Dell being a publicly traded company on NASDAQ, just doesn't seem like good business for De11's investors. Unfortunately, when this deal goes bust no government bailout (i hope).

Second thing which feels like this is full of fail M$ is jumping in. Anyone able to cite one joint venture where M$ has joined up with any other company and it has been successful? N0kia? Ah that's a real winner :(

Originally posted by Dela:

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Originally posted by o0cynix0o:

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With the way the names are listed in the article and my understanding of the word "respectively" Silver Lake is the 2 billion dollar investor not Micro$oft.

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Yep you are right, fixed. Thanks!

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No problem.

Originally posted by Dela:

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Originally posted by SomeBozo:

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Something about this just makes a little voice in my head think of videos i want on youtoob that simply say full of fail...

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Michael Dell will roll over his 16 percent stake of the company and will invest some of his own money, but the deal clearly is heavily leveraged - the largest leveraged buyout since the financial crisis rocked the business world.

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Heavily leveraged... Hmm that means he will be able to gamble with stock holder's money? Dell being a publicly traded company on NASDAQ, just doesn't seem like good business for De11's investors. Unfortunately, when this deal goes bust no government bailout (i hope).

Second thing which feels like this is full of fail M$ is jumping in. Anyone able to cite one joint venture where M$ has joined up with any other company and it has been successful? N0kia? Ah that's a real winner :(

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The consortium are looking to take the company under private ownership so it won't be traded on the NASDAQ any more. The reason the deal is heavily leveraged is with Microsoft putting up $2 billion, Silver Lake a billion, Michael Dell rolling over his 16% stake and putting in some of his own cash (his fortunes changed somewhat before he returned to Dell a few years ago), that still will leave a long way to go in a $24 billion deal, so the group has secured financing from several major banks.

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Thanks for the clarification, sounds like you are more in touch and closer to the facts than I am.

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But if what you say is correct it scares me more, mainly as you say "so the group has secured financing from several major banks."

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Sure sounds like banks are still able to bet in the market, haven't the banked learned after the real estate fiasco? Oh what possibly they did, 1.) they can and will always get bailed out, 2.) There is no risk as they will get bailed out, 3.) Invest in everything, not just real estate so the government would be force to bail them out, don't invent in only one section of the market?