Comments on: 5 Companies That Should Be on Dell's Shopping List

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:37:23 +0000

Dell must consider this list for sure.

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By: Ike

Ike — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:17:00 +0000

I recently went through an acquisition with Dell and left. The culture there is so dysfunctional that I can’t see them being successful with any transaction. The “winning culture” is a lie. You walk in and you hear, “this is an entreprenurial company”…couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s a company run by career managers who spend all day pinging powerpoints back and forth and never speaking to a customer and politicking. That goes for the hardware and services divisions both. There’s an internal identity crisis between career ship em a box managers and services managers that is driving some internal dysfunction as of late. The Box Shippers undermine the services acquisitions and good services people play a “sit on their hands” game and try to figure out how to get re-org’d. It’s brutal. Then need to fire all the managers in Round Rock and go back to having everyone in the company in a customer facing, revenue generating role. Otherwise you’ll end up in the same place of having disgusting, sickening non-customer focused business that is internally scared to do anything the right way. Fire a sh!t of career managers there, that’s the only way to help fix things.

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Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:40:47 +0000

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By: NYCamps

NYCamps — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:08:08 +0000

All of these companies do NOTHING to keep Dell relevant in the Enterprise Space. The only company Dell should be looking to purchase is RED HAT. All developers these days come from two camps; .Net or Linux. Dell has plenty of service offerings around MS, but could seriously use help on the Linux/unix side of things. Red Hat has developed a nice portfolio of close-to-the-box wares that would help Dell branch deeper and broader into “cloud” computing, S.O.A, and presently relevant customer initiatives.
Couple all of this with Oracle’s recent acquisition of Sun, and the amount of business Dell could realize is infinite!

By: tom herold

tom herold — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:59:47 +0000

They will buy and jack shit company and any joeshmoe company. what is it that we are gaining?
why are we discussing this here.
I thought this blog talked about technology , innovations and products, this news seems to be a deviation.

now go ahead guys and gals-> twit about this and create a buzz.

By: Countingon Myfingers

Countingon Myfingers — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:03:53 +0000

> …it’s also a move that could make sense…

If Palm were free or cost maybe a few hundred million dollars it would “make sense”.

At billions of dollars current valuation (remember – 200-ish million shares after Preferred are accounted for, $13-ish current stock price, $400 million in debt)…and billions MORE if ANY premium is paid…it totally does not “make sense”.

I’m surprised you and (many) other Media folks continue to ignore the outrageous cost Palm would be to any acquiring company when you write articles that say acquiring Palm would “make sense”.

By: Tathagata Chakraborty

Tathagata Chakraborty — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:35:00 +0000

I second that! Why don’t companies acquire something that makes life easy for their customers? Every time any company gets acquired the customer service invariably gets worse.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:34:48 +0000

If you want big, how about they buy Skype and bolt on RingCentral? But buying Palm would be a waste for the reasons raised in the post.

By: Paul Lopez

Paul Lopez — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:16:18 +0000

Dell needs something BIG. They run in to problems when they try to introduce a competing OEM product, Dell branded like an MP3 player or PDA. They need to decide if they go after consumer, prosumer or business/enterprise, can’t do all three.
http://lopezunwired.com

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:37:39 +0000

Just some thoughts on the switching front; switching is hyper-competitive and even the most bleeding-edge network equipment vendors acknowledge switching is a commodity due to the lack of intellectual property. Product differentiation is on the software side, so this would be tough for a great manufacturer like Dell. Furthermore, Cisco has a market share of about 33% of worldwide port shipments and 70% of worldwide revenues as of calendar 1Q09, which must be daunting for a new entrant.

On the flipside, Stacy brought up an interesting idea; Vyatta. It makes me wonder if Dell could actually compete with Cisco if they acquired someone like Vyatta, funded internal development of the OS alongside licensing it under the GPL (like Intel with Moblin), and just solely focused on building the most affordable, powerful networking hardware on the planet. It would blindside a very stubborn industry, attracting new customers like Google to start buying rather than building their own equipment. Google even might contribute to the open-source OS like they do Linux just to twist the knife a little as they are known for doing.

Back to reality; never mind all that. It was a nice dream.

By: anxuna

anxuna — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:34:15 +0000

I agree with iBav NetApp and/or Force10

By: pwb

pwb — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:33:47 +0000

I think Dell should concentrate on hardware. It has no competence in software or services.

By: Haresh Vaishnav

Haresh Vaishnav — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:57:38 +0000

If they want to stay relevant in the enterprise space and compete with big guns like HP, IBM, Cisco they will need big acquisition. Buying small startup and growing them organically is not going to do it.

I agree with iBav on storage. NetApp is the most appropriate choice. Dell has been selling storage from EMC; but this immediately brings them lot of credibility in this space with enterprise customers.

oDesk is too small for them to help win in the enterprise space. They have to go with the established company such as ACS similar to what HP did last year with the buyout of EDS.

By: iBav

iBav — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:36:42 +0000

what about NetApp and/or Force10? Win-Win for all parties and helps combat Cisco, HP, EMC, and IBM. Om – good point on Citrx, they do need a s/w services play offset declining h/w margins…