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Now we just need Ichann to leave Dell alone, so it can go back to the business of trying to survive.
Read more : Post-PC era spooks Blackstone into dropping Dell bid | ZDNetBlackstone's lack of confidence in Dell's ability to compete in the post-PC era led the private equity firm to drop its bid for the company.
Now we just need Ichann to leave Dell alone, so it can go back to the business of trying to survive.
Hi there
I have a lot of respect for Dell -- it opened up the PC market in a way that was never done before -- you could totally customise the machine you wanted with all sorts of options that nobody else would ever dream of giving you -- and they'd build and ship it for you CHEAPER than anything available in the stores -- AND THEY GAVE YOU OS DISKS and DRIVER disks too -- none of those rubbish "Recovery partitions" which often don't work and even if they do just load up the OS with a load of crap / ad / trial / bloat ware.
However the PC market has changed radically -- DELL can no longer survive on a "Stack'em high and build 'em cheap" policy.
They could survive by still maintaining the individual build policy but volumes of course will be hugely down --inevitable these days - but as a niche player they could survive quite nicely. Of course they would totally have to re-structure the business but they could survive.
Venture Capitalists (Aka Private Equity Firms) want Big Bucks NOW which is why that particular trade went south.
Cheers
jimbo