Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B

Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by dba7dba on Monday October 12, 2015 @03:53AM (#10373091)

While Dell may have had a shot at being AWS and EMC in 90's and 2000's, it never entered into their mindset. They were PROUDLY claiming how they were not wasting money on R&D but rather simply churning out boxes of computers as cheaply as possible using innovations developed by others.

But it is good to see a possible competitor to AWS.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by rodgerd on Monday October 12, 2015 @04:17AM (#10373181)

> They were PROUDLY claiming how they were not wasting money on R&D but rather simply churning out boxes of computers as cheaply as possible using innovations developed by others.

Yep. And the downward spiral of companies like HP was chasing them down that path.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by yuhong on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:53PM (#10375712)

That is partly because Intel beat them in many of their R&D though.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by dba7dba on Monday October 12, 2015 @03:20PM (#10376476)

Apple? Samsung? Plenty of innovation from non-Intel.

Believe it or not one of the early thin/light Dell laptop that sold well was a rebadged Samsung laptop. It was Dell X1 laptop. 2.5lb laptop with 12inch screen in 2005, or even earlier.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by yuhong on Monday October 12, 2015 @06:07PM (#10377217)

I was thinking of the workstation/server market, though HP did have their Vectras back in the 1990s.

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