Dell Estimated to Cost Up To $25 Billion
Dell is reportedly interested in accepting a management buyout offer at a price of $13 to $14 per share, which would put the purchase price of the company into a range of $22 to $25 billion.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Silver Lake Partners is leading the negotiations from the investor side and plans on borrowing up to $15 billion from banks to finance the deal. The report suggests that Dell founder Michael Dell will not be cashing in its share holdings, but use their current value of about $3.5 billion for a stake in the buyout. Silver Lake will need at least $2 billion from its own sources to purchase Dell.
The speculated reason for the buyout is the ability to take Dell private again and allow Michael Dell to restructure the company faster than it would be possible if the company is publicly traded and change is slowed down by the interests of other share holders. If the buyout happens, Dell could be seeing the most dramatic change in business and product strategy since its founding in 1984.

Dude, Michael Dell is not an "it", he's a "his".
He means to say that Mr Dell is making the decision on what to do with the shares that Dell, the company, owns.
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Dell still exists? You learn something new everyday. I thought they went the way of the Packard Bell.
Just avoid their printers...
Actually, avoid pretty much every single printer except for the ones consistently given 5-stars by Consumer Report and other legit 3rd parties.
(Still haven't forgiven any company for deciding to not add driver support for Windows 8 to their 2012 model printers)
When I was shopping around for a printer, every salesman was telling me dont buy brother buy HP. Bought a brother instead because it had the requirements I needed and cheaper ink cause I often buy it on eBay. Day after win8 was released, they had drivers for it up on the site. Even winRT
Actually, Packard Bell is also still around. They are owned by Acer and are sold in Europe.
Good maybe now their stuff won't be crap and their customer service won't be like talking to a bunch of monkeys.