{"id":1895,"date":"2012-06-01T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2288711"},"modified":"2012-06-01T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:19:00","slug":"cloud-computing-quest-in-play-dell-reportedly-kicking-the-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-quest-in-play-dell-reportedly-kicking-the-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Quest in Play; Dell Reportedly Kicking the Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right before the long weekend Dell was supposed to be negotiating to buy Quest Software.<br \/>\nQuest is looking for an offer better than the $2 billion Insight Venture Partners, the private equity house, bid in early March and Quest accepted barring a superior offer.<br \/>\nBloomberg says it knows from unnamed sources that Dell is among \u201cseveral companies that made offers\u201d during Quest\u2019s so-called \u201cgo shop\u201d period. And Quest has all but said it expected to get the superior offer it\u2019s looking for.<br \/>\nWhether that offer will come from Dell or from any of a handful of companies that could theoretically include HP, IBM, BMC, CA, Microsoft (Quest\u2019s wares have a Microsoft bias) or Oracle is anybody\u2019s guess. Insight offered $23 a share; JPMorgan Chase says it\u2019s worth $28. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2288711\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right before the long weekend Dell was supposed to be negotiating to buy Quest Software.<br \/>\nQuest is looking for an offer better than the $2 billion Insight Venture Partners, the private equity house, bid in early March and Quest accepted barring a super&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}