Well, I did say they couldn’t sustain their current business model. Lets make everything appear so cheap, blitz people with our advertising and endless offers! Let’s compete on price, price, price. Do they innovate and do loads of R&D (like IBM) or do they just try and shift more and more boxes on wafer thin margins? It’s just not sustainable! I like The Register analysis of this? Dell’s excuse is that it’s the weak global economy, so I know let’s drop prices even more!
Don’t get me wrong there’s nothing much wrong with their technology but on the server side there’s nothing much to get excited about. The problem is that within the small business market no one really cares about that anyway, so what if IBM servers use vectored cooling, lightpath fault diagnostics, onboard RAID 0/1 as standard, chipkill memory and sophisticated management software.
Do Dell have expert partners in the channel backed by an extensive support network and technical/sales training to deliver the right solution to your business. Not on your nelly, they are only interested in parting you from your hard earned cash and they’re damn successful at it!
Just don’t ever ring Dell and ask them how to network 2 computers together!
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