I see the cutting edge of this in the Dell Technologies saga. Pulling in EMC, VMware, Pivotal, and other storage vendors to bolster it's "Enterprise" chops, th

I see the cutting edge of this in the Dell Technologies saga. Pulling in EMC, VMware, Pivotal, and other storage vendors to bolster it's "Enterprise" chops, then pretty quickly restructuring and spinning out all the software groups as public companies. So now Dell has two divisions with serious synergy: Dell EMC (storage, enterprise software, consulting), and Dell (servers, PCs, etc). Spinning out VMware and Pivotal ensured that each could grow without having to answer to specific hardware vendor affinity. As other big bets grow fruit they will likely get sold off or spun out as well. The cutting edge is that as they spin, the shareholders get pieces of the NewCos, and the process renews again.