is live withhis lif vmware ceo pat gelsinger.mily: thank you for joining us on bloomberg television. the biggest merger in tech history is almost complete. $57 billion. bmc will go private and vmware will remain trading as a public company. pat: when the deal was announced , everybody was like -- emily: how? pat: here in headlights. in headlights. people got back to work quickly. for emc and dell, this is a full on merger. we remain an independent company come independent shareholders come independent ecosystem, get back to work. lots of curiosity, how is the deal going? we are closing in on the finish line. emily: what is it like having boss?l dell as an almost' pat: the questions about his role at the board. we expect them to be more involved. it will be a close relationship. lots of interaction. i talked to him all the time. there are things we have to approve. we are working together closely realeven though many decisions cannot occur until after the deal closes. how can he help us grow faster? him, it's ok, pat, how can we c

. >> feeling good and solid and hot, and those are good descriptors, and pat gelsinger.hank you for joining us. >> thank you, jon. you are always great. >>> and now, simon is back on europe europe? >> well, thundering down and the eye of the storm is what happen s next thursday with the vote on whether the uk is going to be leaving the european union and these are heavy losses with four polls coming in suggesting that the leave campaign is in front, and then rupert murdoch's "sun" newspaper saying that the uk should leave, and that has grabbed a lot of people's attention. what is important here is to understand that the market as ubs is pointing out is trying to price two completely opposing economic outcomes, so you won't see the massive price movements the way that you believe you might. and yes, the pound is under pressure, and it is assurance of where the pound is going to move, and it is still a move on the session, and so you can also see for the record today, some of the asset managers in the uk unusually moving to the downside, and over in switzerland, there is a