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Mark Vena on Dellienware
Edison Trent writes "Tom's Hardware has a piece up on the acquisition of Alienware by Dell in which they've interviewed Mark Vena, Alienware's VP of Marketing, who spilled some interesting beans on the acquisition. Among them is the fact that Michael Dell himself (aka Mr Steve Jobs-alike) supposedly led the acquisition from the beginning (will this force out Alienware management later?), and that Dell will be handling all of Alienwares supplier relationships, including that with AMD. In the more mundane and day to day changes Dell will also be backing Alienware financing of their expensive machines, which is something Alienware couldn't have done before on its own and because Dell will be handling all of Alienwares suppliers the company expects to get more allocation of scarce products such as new graphics cards and ordering an Alienware will no longer be like putting in an order for a car in East Germany."
Wheres SlashClippy when you need him
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
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Did you just compare Michael Dell to Steve Jobs?
Here's a hint: one wears a turtleneck and makes innovative computer products, the other one is Michael Dell.
Next Time on Slashdot: "Linus Torvalds (Linux's Bill Gates) tells people to use KDE!!!"
"Dude ... you're getting an Alien!"
I'm sure Sigourney Weaver will be first in line.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
See UserFriendly's take: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060326 :)
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
The place I work, the management is so out of touch they have no idea whats going on. They constantly allocate resources in the most ass way possible, lie, cheat, steal, and fire anybody who is competent.
So you work at Microsoft?
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Whoa....why make up silly names when everyone knows Dell and Alienware together make Delaware. All we want is for ID software to merge with Yahoo, and we will have IDahoo! Now its all making sense, those state names were not based on native tribes afterall.