Dell Exec Calls HP's New 'Machine' Architecture 'Laughable'

jfruh (300774) writes HP's revelation that it's working on a radical new computing architecture that it's dubbed "The Machine" was met with excitement among tech observers this week, but one of HP's biggest competitors remains extremely unimpressed. John Swanson, the head of Dell's software business, said that "The notion that you can reach some magical state by rearchitecting an OS is laughable on the face of it." And Jai Memnon, Dell's research head, said that phase-change memory is the memory type in the pipeline mostly like to change the computing scene soon, not the memristors that HP is working on.

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Re:Dell can have no valid opinion on this.

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"Dell is a reseller. They do not invest in any of the fundamental technologies like CPUs or Operating Systems. They have no design expertise in virtual machines like the JVM. They don't do chip design or fab. They have never been in any of these businesses."

They, in fact, have been in all those businesses. Dell did their own Unix and they supported both gcc and X11 development. They invested in CPU and chipset technology; several ex-Dell employees left to found Centaur. They work closely with all these technologies. They have to.

HP has the exact same corporate background as Dell; their old histories are irrelevant. HP was an instrumentation company once upon a time while Michael Dell was an Apple II hacker. So what?

Ignorant people should learn to keep their mouths shut.