* Posts by adamyaws

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Dinosaur love hug: Dell's $64bn death pledge to EMC

adamyaws

Re: Dell

Very well written and thought out comment. I spent 4 years working for the Evil Machine Company; time which I look back upon fondly until I left and moved along to a "cloud" SAAS company.

While Mr. Dell is a very smart man, I'd agree that his eyes on the 'prize' per se is VMWare. Dell has never really had anything (or acquired anything) innovative or market-challenging/changing. EMC has massive experience in picking up a radical technology and using their powerful sales force to build a market and sell a product. Then turn that $ around and invest in R&D. I've never seen Dell do anything but pick up a 'me too' technology, and sell it to a price.

Dell has never been innovative; they've been good at making things cheap and driving down the cost of enterprise-class items.