????拋售談判：在與銀湖展開談判過程中，戴爾公司接到過一個不明身份的戰略投資方的電話，表示有意按照賬面價值（35億-40億美元）收購戴爾的金融服務業務。波士頓咨詢公司（Boston Consulting Group）在審查過該提案后認為它無法為戴爾帶來足夠的價值。值得注意的是，另一個戰略投資方——據信是通用電氣（General Electric）——也和黑石簽署了一個保密協議，以對戴爾的金融服務業務開展盡職調查。這意味著黑石有意把戴爾金融賣給通用電氣——這可能是與邁克爾?戴爾起爭執的另一個要點（也是另一個為何黑石不太會出價的原因）。

????譯者：清遠

????Strip sale talks: During negotiations with Silver Lake, Dell received a call from an undisclosed strategic party, expressing interest in purchasing Dell Financial Services at book value ($3.5b-$4b). Boston Consulting Group examined the proposal, but determined it would not create sufficient value for Dell. Worth noting that another strategic party -- believed to be General Electric (GE) -- signed a joiner to Blackstone's non-disclosure agreement, in order to conduct due diligence on DFS. This suggests Blackstone would sell DFS to GE -- a likely point of contention with Michael Dell (yet another reason why Blackstone is unlikely to bid).