Here is what we believe happened this morning, after the announcement hit all the media outlets today:  
 
 
The phones at Michael Dell's office in Round Rock, Texas started ringing early this morning. "Check the Caller ID! Why, it's from Redmond, Washington! Hmmm. Wonder who that could be?" (The conversation is too graphic to publish here, but perhaps you can imagine it.) Click.  
 
Mere minutes later, the phones start ringing at Questar's offices in Italy. "Hello? Oh hi, Dell. How are you, partner? ... Have a good Fourth? Good. Hmmm. Oh, I see. Yeah, we have been getting a lot of calls all of a sudden. Well, we didn't tell any lies with our press release ... You say you want a different spin. You want us to say we are configuring the machines? But we don't do that. We're just salesmen. You guys build the machines ... ok, well, we'll see what we can do. Ciao." Click. Shrug.