As we said back in December, the deal makes sense since all are too sickly and weak to remain relevant on their own. In addition, each one has strengths that the others do not, VAIO with the remnants of Sony's branding, Toshiba's foothold in North America and Fujitsu's pull in Europe. Pooling resources will also enable all three to save bundles of cash on manufacturing and jobs where effort is currently duplicated across all three firms. Of course, Bloomberg's analysts are less optimistic about the move, with one source saying that the new outfit will be strong in Japan, but weak elsewhere in the world.