Dell Technologies Inc. going public again may have been inevitable. That doesn’t mean it was ever going to be easy.
In that light, the plan announced Monday qualifies as one of the better options. As a debt-laden tech giant still heavily reliant on selling personal computers, Dell was never going to be an easy sell as an initial public offering. And the prospect of a reverse merger with VMware ran the risk of hurting the most valuable part of the new Dell empire. Rumors of such a move earlier this year clobbered the market...