We know what's going to happen.' Prices are going to go up, service is going to go down," Kurtz told hundreds of vendors, channel partners and others attending the Best of Breed conference in Atlanta. The deal has elicited feedback from Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, Scale Computing CEO Jeff Ready, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami and IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. Here's what these tech titans with a combined $178 billion market cap have to say about the biggest tech merger of the year: