> On October 12, 2015, Dell Inc. announced that it would acquire EMC in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $67 billion—the largest-ever acquisition in the technology industry.

Wow, and I never even heard of EMC.

They are the majority or full owners of VMWare and RSA, and are apparently huge in the enterprise data storage sector, and also "ranked no. 2 on Fortune's list of the World’s Most Admired Computer Companies for the fifth consecutive year" in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_EMC

Apparently EMC bought Likewise back in 2011. We used Likewise way back around 2000 for AD integration, because at the time it was a real turnkey solution that Just Worked, whereas Samba required more effort and had some issues.

The rabbit hole started at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12621063 :

> The ones who didn't want the GPLv3 (Apple) either wrote their own or purchased a proprietary third party server such as Likewise and were left holding a flaming bag of shit when EMC purchased the Likewise codebase and cancelled all existing support contracts.