Earlier today, Dell officially announced that it plans to acquire data storage giant EMC in a deal worth $67 billion. To say that the deal is big would be something of an understatement -- it is the single largest tech-only acquisition of all time, and worth more than the next four acquisitions combined.
While AOL's $106 billion purchase of Time Warner back in 2001 was a bigger deal, many would exclude that from comparison given that Time Warner wasn't really a technology company per se at the time. So here's the next five biggest tech-only acquisitions after Dell and EMC, though these haven't been adjusted for inflation.
