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EMC Appeals to DDUP Employees

In an effort to increase the pressure on the board of Data Domain (NASDAQ: DDUP) to accept EMC’s $30 per share acquisition offer and reject NetApp’s (NASDAQ: NTAP) competing offer, EMC CEO Joseph Tucci issued an open letter to Data Domain employees today. Under EMC (NYSE: EMC), Data Domain employees would have “a great and exciting future,” Tucci said. As a subsidiary of EMC, Data Domain—whose deduplication technologies are “are important to the future of enterprise IT,” in Tucci’s words—would stay intact as a product division, he said. Tucci added that EMC’s all-cash offer for Data Domain “remains superior” to NetApp’s cash-and-stock offer.

Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com, call him at (617) 252-7323, or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/wroush.

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