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What replaced Dell? HP? Offices are still buying desktop PCs by the pallet-load. What are they buying? edit: I'll answer my own question: http://en.wikipedi
by blhack 14y ago
What replaced Dell? HP?
Offices are still buying desktop PCs by the pallet-load. What are they buying?
edit: I'll answer my own question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_leading_PC_vendors#2006-2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_share_of_leading_PC_vend...
- bigdubs 14y agoThose offices are buying super low margin PCs that make Dell very little money. The PC market is fairly cutthroat, a result of, all things, Microsofts general business philosophy of commodifying its complements.
- nonamegiven 14y agoLenovo around here. EDIT: And in some places, virtual machines. Good for MS and those places, not so good for Dell.
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago> EDIT: And in some places, virtual machines All VMs run on hardware.
- kalininalex 14y agoBut it may be increasingly assembled by the providers of virtual services from components, rather than purchased from Dell.
- nonamegiven 14y agoBut it's not generally 1-1.
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y agoOh yes, local VMs and VMs on servers and in the cloud are great; but you also need one device in front of each office worker that connects to them.
- protomyth 14y agoWe went with Acer desktops, Apple portables, and HP or SuperMicro servers. Dell decided to classify us as government when we are an educational institution. It was a very, very sore point[1], and the government pricing was 2x the educational price. 1) only time I have ever lost my cool with a vendor
- nikster 14y agoHmmm .. a company that refuses to sell to a potential customer. And that doubles their prices for the government. I guess one cant be too surprised at their downfall....
- smackfu 14y agoThey are also just NOT buying. A five year old computer should run email and Office just fine. Maybe get a RAM upgrade or something for $50.
- nikster 14y agoI think its also about Microsoft and how the company has failed to provide any real additional value over a Windows XP machine with Office 2001. My corporate client is running XP with Office 2003 and I really wish they'd stuck with the 2001 edition. Same features, less annoying. Stagnation in innovation is coming back to bite them.
- OGinparadise 14y agoFor many of them XP is perfect, a lot of their work is being done online or custom apps.
- jonknee 14y agoThere are lots of new companies/employees, businesses are buying lots of computers regardless of how long they are using them for.
- jsz0 14y agoBased on the earlier rumors of Dell moving into thin clients / hosted PC service, and now Microsoft's stamp of approval assisting in this deal, it seems like there won't be much of a mainstream PC enterprise market in a few years. Just lots of thin clients on desks and lots of big servers somewhere.
- iomike 14y agolenovo and thin clients