This is a contested situation where you want to maintain being the superior bid, if you will. Dell is clearly saying that 3PAR is a strategic asset for the company.
The battle for 3PAR is driven by its cloud-based storage applications, which enable IT organizations to deliver software and hardware as a service, offering a storage infrastructure platform for highly-virtualized data centers and cloud computing.
This new bid by Dell reflects an amended termination fee or break up fee of $72 million, which is payable in the event that 3PAR receives and accepts another unsolicited acquisition proposal that its board determines to be superior to Dell's increased offer.
How, if at all, does the uncertainty in the HP executive suite play into this? The company doesn't have a permanent CEO since Mark Hurd's scandal. So far it doesn't appear to affect their decision making. In fact, they've got an executive in charge of this particular area of bidding. (More about Hurd's departure and severance pay here)
Also, if Hewlett Packard chooses to come back and compete, can they make a bid that forces the board of 3PAR to tell Dell that they don’t any longer have these perpetual matching rights (every time Hewlett comes up on their bid price, Dell can position to match) or at least you have to come back and finish this up?
One has to imagine that Hewlett Packard knew Dell would probably compete and most likely does have another bid in its pocket.
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