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Dell to Buy Quest Software for $2.4 Billion

By Staff Author | July 2, 2012

A Dell computer logo is seen on a laptop at Best Buy in Phoenix, Arizona, February 18, 2010. REUTERS/Joshua LottDell Inc will buy Quest Software Inc for $2.4 billion in cash in an effort to expand its software business and decrease its dependence on the declining personal computer market.


Dell said on Monday it will pay $28 per share, trumping a bid from private investment firm Insight Ventures, adding that it expects the deal to close in the third quarter.


Dell sparked a bidding war in June, when it offered $25.50 per share for Quest, an enterprise management software maker, topping Insight’s initial offer in March of $23 per share.


Insight later bid $25.75 a share for Quest.


Last week, Quest said a strategic bidder it did not identify had offered $27.50 per share. Reuters later identified Dell as the bidder.


“The addition of Quest will enable Dell to deliver more competitive server, storage, networking and end user computing solutions and services to customers,” said John Swainson, president of Dell Software Group.


Dell has been diversifying its revenue base in the face of weakened consumer demand, giving up low-margin sales to consumers and moving into higher-margin areas, such as catering to the technology needs of small and medium businesses in the public sector and the healthcare industry.


The company now finds itself lagging larger rivals like Hewlett-Packard Co and International Business Machines Corp in the race to become one-stop shops for corporate information technology needs.


Dell dropped 1.4 percent to $12.34 in early trading. Quest, up 43 percent since Insight first made its offer, was down 0.2 percent at $27.75.


Reuters


 


 


Posted by Janine E. Mooney, Editor


July 02, 2012

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