Michael Dell On Partner Sales Growth After The EMC Acquisition

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What's been the biggest surprise as you have combined Dell and EMC?

The biggest surprise is that we haven't had a lot of surprises. The really good news from our perspective is that the revenues and the growth that's been coming in has been much more than we planned. The reaction from partners, distributors, end-user customers around the world has been quite positive. If I go back to before we announced the combination – we announced it in October of 2015 almost two years ago – we hoped that there would be this positive reaction, but we didn't know for sure. Through the announcement, all the integration planning, and then the shareholder vote and the official combination and now standing up the business, we've just seen a tremendous validation of the strategy we put in place, which is to say No. 1 in everything all in one place.