抛售谈判：在与银湖展开谈判过程中，戴尔公司接到过一个不明身份的战略投资方的电话，表示有意按照账面价值（35亿-40亿美元）收购戴尔的金融服务业务。波士顿咨询公司（Boston Consulting Group）在审查过该提案后认为它无法为戴尔带来足够的价值。值得注意的是，另一个战略投资方——据信是通用电气（General Electric）——也和黑石签署了一个保密协议，以对戴尔的金融服务业务开展尽职调查。这意味着黑石有意把戴尔金融卖给通用电气——这可能是与迈克尔•戴尔起争执的另一个要点（也是另一个为何黑石不太会出价的原因）。

    译者：清远

    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).