Dell's privatisation plan has entered the board's voting stage.

Dell's privatisation plan has entered the board's voting phase and is expected to be seen in the last two days. According to the latest report, the size of USD 24 billion will be one of the biggest privatization deals in the technology industry. Don't rush to debate whether privatization will save the behemoth, and I want to say that Dell has made a courageous decision to bid farewell to the PC and to embrace its next era.

On the Mad Money program Last May, Wall Street's financial name, Jim Cramer, mercilessly condemned the death of Dell's shares, citing the company's inability to compete with companies like Apple in the shrinking PC and laptop markets. On this day, Dell's stock fell significantly, and in the remainder of 2012 it was a mess.

But the fall in stock prices this year may have been a better thing for Dell-founder Michael Dayer finally decided to privatize the company as soon as possible. In this way, it will be able to stay away from the demands of the public and Wall Street analysts for quarterly performance growth, far from short-sighted and to redeploy long-term strategies.

In fact, Dell has been slowly reinventing itself for the past 3 years: from Dell, a low-cost PC maker, to Dell, the cloud-centric enterprise hardware services company. Just look back at the 15 companies that Dell has acquired over the last few years and see a clear roadmap.

At the end of 2009, Dell acquired the IT Services Perot System (Perot), in February 2010, acquired a cluster storage vendor, Exanet, then acquired the data center management software company Scalent, followed by a company that provided data de-duplication technology for ocarina,2010 years, It completes acquisitions for SaaS Integrator Boomi and data storage hardware manufacturer Compellent.

2011 January, Dell completed the acquisition of security Service provider SecureWorks, June, it acquired the virtualization software developer RNA networks,8 month, the company announced the acquisition of data Center network solution provider Force10.

In the past 2012, Dell has received 6 companies, including 5 in April: Make Technologies and Clerity Bae, all modern software and service providers; Sonicwall,appassure and Quest are corporate security services. August, also announced the acquisition of well-known cloud client Wyse company.

Looking at these acquisitions, do you think it is aimed at competing with Apple for high-end PC and laptop markets? or compete with ASUS Acer for the cheap PC market? These acquisitions show that it is ready to turn itself into an end-to-end hardware service provider, helping large and small customers migrate business processes smoothly and securely to the cloud.

Microsoft clearly sees the value of Dell's path, which, according to the report, will provide 2 billion of dollars to help Dell complete privatization. The investment is good for both sides: Microsoft needs hardware partners to implement its cloud strategy, and Dell needs to make up for its software's short board.

Of course, simple privatisation does not save Dell. In the process of transformation, it will have to seriously do a reorganization and brand remodeling work. Privatisation, however, gave Dell the respite and space it needed, at least for the time being that it no longer needed to explain to shareholders every quarter why they had not launched a better product than the ipad.