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zapatero writes "The San Francisco Chronicle has an enjoyable read with new Dell CEO Kevin Rollins. He has quite a critique of the HP acquisition of Compaq: 'They had a great, profitable printer business before. They still have a great, profitable printer business. ... Their profits are 70 to 80 percent from the printer business. So that's the area where the profit pool still lives. It's where it lived before. It's where it still is now. So I just ask, what's changed?'"
I live near a large HP facility (Boise, Idaho) and I've seen first hand the changes at HP. Brilliant engineers are being fired, and what used to be an emphasis on innovation and creativity has been replaced by a lust for short term profit to please the investors. I used to think HP was the most admirable company in tech, and maybe it was, but now... What goes around comes around though, I'm not expecting HP to succeed in the long run.
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Parent is a very informative post - I didn't know about this other side of HP/Compaq!
As a "Regional Systems Support Engineer for Asia Pacific" some of the things we used to do for our customers were totally amazing in this day and age.
One thing that I remember doing for one my customers is shipping a part on a hired helecopter because it was the fastest way to get me the part and the customer was on a "DEC Protect/Recover All" contract, which mean NOTHING was too much trouble.
Those were the days.
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How much of the Bush $2T 2004 budget pays for corporations, and how much for humans? It's probably a lot better than 7.4% paid for corporate services. Especially when you include that $200B Iraq War.
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Except for the ones Canon manufactured and HP assembled, rebranded, and sold.
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Sorry for my fuzzy math here, the percentages are more like 84% individuals and 16% corporations.
" Dell makes more money selling PCs, etc at a low cost than HP does doing everything it does. "
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Actually not true. First a couple of links.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/18/technolog
http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/13/technology
Figured from may indicate that HP made 884 million and Dell made 731 million for the second quarter.
The analysts are worried because Dell's profit margins are shrinking while their revenue keeps growing.
"Oh, and IBM didn't transform itself by buying also-ran competitors."
Also not true. IBM bought lotus, informix, and a slew of other companies.
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That a CEO is not personally responsible because his corporation is willing to "buy" that freedom from responsibility is not a valid argument and, if anything, makes it look like the government is on the take... that the government is willing to excuse you from personal responsibility as long as you submit to double taxation.
You're not required to be a US company to be traded on a US Stock exchange.
Telekom Austria, Swisscom, Novartis, UBS and a lot more foreign companies are traded at NYSE.
You do of course have to follow SEC rules if you wish to be traded on an US exchange.
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Although you are right that foreign companies can have a listing on a US exchange, the disclosure and corporate governance requirements for foreign listers are less than for US corporations. This in turn may disqualify some ERISA type accounts from investing in this type of security. So in order to maximise your exposure to a full range of US investors, you need the US registration and listing.
I suspect that this is not the reason that Dell is onshore, though. As a US company, they can get orders from the US government, and their brand would probably be damaged if they changed their domicile or registration to a non-US one.
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When he finally got it the cmos battery died within a week and the DVD drive failed. He hasn't gotten it fixed because, unlike Apple, you can't simply send the machine back in. They must come to you (as far as I'm aware), and being a high school student, he isn't home when techs are on duty.
...the repair techs don't actually work for Dell and have to do repairs for us we could very well do on our own.
If you are able to repair the system yourself, you can always just ask for the parts. Dell will be happy to not have to pay the on-site tech and will just send you the parts. Also, if you have a portable system you can get a return to depot warranty, but honestly, if you view having a technician come out to your house the next business day and repairing your computer to be an inconvenience, then is there any pleasing you?
Oh...they can also come out after 4 or even 5 o'clock well after High School lets out. And if the problem happened in the first 21 days, you could just demand a replacement computer.
The repair techs used by Dell are contracted pretty much from the companies that everyone elses uses also. Banctec, Qualxserv, Unisys...there are others. Those companies do a thriving business because companies like IBM, Dell, HP/Compaq, Sony and the like contract them. And again, if you think you can handle the repair yourself, Dell will just send you the parts. Of course, if you break the computer while trying to repair you, then you are liable for paying to repair what you damaged, but that's just fair.
Also, if you are a larger company you can have someone certified for Premier Access, then you can just order your own parts, do your own repairs and you aren't liable for breaking a computer while trying to repair it...unless it was intentional.
Honestly...get your facts straight. I wouldn't even normally have bothered to respond, but since someone mod'd you up to Informative...*shrugs*