"EMC has a long acquisition history and track record," says Matt Olton, vice president of corporate development at EMC. "We've learned our lessons about what works and what creates more challenges."
A caveat: EMC is "often viewed as a very acquisitive company," Olton says, "but you'll see investments in R&D equivalent to our acquisition spend." Not many tech companies can focus on both internally and externally driven innovation on a large scale, says Olton, an 11-year veteran of the firm who works with a core team of about a dozen members, plus a much larger virtual team that cuts across all business functions.
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Couple of good points here about M&A in general. I've seen ones that didn't quite work, didn't work at all and ones that worked better than you could have imagined.
When you get more than one of the brilliant ones you know it isn't the luck of the draw.
