Dell to Buy E-Mail Service to Better Compete With Rivals - New York Times

Strange days indeed

Dell, the computer maker, said on Tuesday that it would buy the business e-mail services provider MessageOne, which was co-founded by Michael S. Dell’s brother, in an effort to compete with similar services provided by Microsoft and Google.

The $155 million cash deal is Dell’s latest in a wave of acquisitions ranging from small shops like the software company Everdream to the $1.4 billion purchase in November of the network storage provider EqualLogic.

Dell to Buy E-Mail Service to Better Compete With Rivals - New York Times