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Dell CEO Tells All

Posted by timothy on from the formerly-of-black-flag dept.

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?'"

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  1. Re:What's changed.... by JessLeah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm curious, and this is a serious question. Exactly what the fuck motivates you trolls to sit around SlashDot posting shit like this? What's the thrill? What drives you to waste your time posting things like this?

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  2. I am not so sure about their printer business. by Omni+Magnus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think Xerox makes the best color laser printers. I know those are still too expensive for most of us, but the college where I work probably has purchased at least 100 HP B&W laser printers, but we have purchased only Xerox color laser printers. Why? SPEED!!! For $2000 (at the time) we could get an HP that did 6 pages a minute of a Xerox that did 16. Do the math, and guess what we went with. I must say the HP were a little bit more difficult to jam (I only notice it on the Xerox when we print 500+ pages at once), but that slight edge in reliability is not worth the decrease in speed.

  3. Re:No crack here, move along by JessLeah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So I'm a crack-smoker because I don't see the attraction of trolling?

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  4. Re: I don't see the attraction by JessLeah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not trolling. I really, truly, honestly get my knickers in a twist over punctuation abuse.

    If I was a troll, I wouldn't have Excellent karma, and regularly (at least once out of every 3 or 4 posts) get a "5, Insightful", "5, Informative", "5, Interesting" or "5, Funny".

    And I'd post anonymously, like you. And probably use a lot of inappropriate racial slurs like "nigger" for no reason at all. And post links to goatse. Or Tubgirl. Or talk about "GNAA". That's the sort of shit trolls do. I'm not a troll. I'm just slightly nuts and obsessed with the proper(ish) use of language.

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