Dell said it will buy MessageOne, an e-mail archiving service provider, for $155 million. MessageOne’s customer base is mostly small and midsize businesses and it also competes with Microsoft, MessageLabs, and Yahoo’s Zimbra unit. Dell raised an eyebrow when it paid $1.4 billion for iSCSI vendor EqualLogic last fall. The good news is, they have another three years before their partnership expires to find a way to cooperate and compete.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/partners-that-compete