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Re:Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal by akmiller on Thursday September 12, 2013 @07:12PM (#6377604)
I've been a developer and building websites for a long time. Yes, "easy" is probably overstating, but the parts that are problems I'd think could be corrected or fixed without a major undertaking. Fixing the broken links and finding a way to speed the pages up a bit should not require overhauling the entire site.

Dell, I would guess, does much of their business online so it would seem a no-brainer to make the online experience as good as possible. Broken links and consistent timeouts are inexcusable for a site like Dell.

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Re:Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal by Samuel_Michon on Thursday September 12, 2013 @07:21PM (#6377630)
> Broken links and consistent timeouts are inexcusable for a site like Dell.

Oh, I agree. But I doubt they’re doing it on purpose. I would also guess that they have a lot of talented, knowledgable web developers on staff. That's why I'm saying that the problems are probably not as easily solved as you may think. I don't know what their backend is, I don't know what kind of CMS they're using and how it ties into their ERP, CRM, etc.

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