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Dell to Sell Itself for $24.4 Billion
- chacha102 14y agoCan't read the article. Paywall block.
- mikeash 14y agoTry clicking on the link to the article here, appears to circumvent it: https://www.google.com/search?q=Dell%20to%20Sell%20Itself%20for%20%2424.4%20Billion https://www.google.com/search?q=Dell%20to%20Sell%20Itself%20...
- jervisfm 14y agoInteresting, when coming to the link from Google[1], I didn't hit the pay-block. [1] - http://goo.gl/TfUlG http://goo.gl/TfUlG
- tuananh 14y agoGoogle acquires them to do so. I read it somewhere.
- sjwright 14y agoRequires. Acquires would be scary.
- tuananh 14y agobrainfart. :D
- wlesieutre 14y agoIf a site didn't let users see the content that matched their search query, Google would either not index it or would put it far into the results after the more useful links. To avoid that, they have a deal with a number of paywalled sites called "First Click Free" that lets users who reach a site via search to access a limited number of articles through the paywall.
- iag 14y agoI can't be more excited by this news. Michael Dell is in a pretty unique position to do something innovative in the PC industry. Remember when Dell told Steve Jobs that he should close shop? http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html Your turn, Michael. Let's see if you can turn Dell around like the way Steve Jobs turned Apple around!
- ajb 14y agoI'm less excited. Think about it: what would it take for a startup to buy servers from Dell again, rather than renting them?
- jmduke 14y agoI'd argue that Dell has the strongest brand out of all of the Windows OEMs. I think they'd be in a good position to take a few short-term losses and pursue establishing a position similar to Vizio's: a high-end manufacturer. That, coupled with their experience in B2B could absolutely revitalize their company.
- RandallBrown 14y agoIsn't Vizio a low end manufacturer? Their TVs certainly are. I've never seen one of their PCs though.
- schraeds 14y agoThe strongest brand in a post-peak industry with new contenders every day. Also, the Dell brand isn't a Coca-Cola or BMW, it is not all roses. Also, shouldn't the title be Dell buys itself for $24b?
- josh2600 14y agoDell is getting out of the hardware business and into the solutions and services business.
- philwelch 14y agoWhy don't they just shut it down, and give the money back to the shareholders?
- wuster 14y agohigh five from Steve Jobs's spirit
- corin_ 14y agoHow many times does this joke have to be made? And with this take over, he literally is giving money to the shareholders.
- raganwald 14y agoAlthough I do not like Dell's products or doing business with Dell, I don't hold that against Michael Dell. At the time he said that Apple was not on a course to succeed. It's true that since then they have made several high-risk/high-reward course changes and succeeded, but even with the benefit of hindsight his comment was reasonable. I certainly wouldn't want to say that shutting down and giving the money back to shareholders was a terrible idea because Apple was going to successfully disrupt several different consumer markets where everyone gave them no chance AND was going to reinvent its own supply chain management. In hindsight, shutting down and giving money back to investors was probably the second-best outcome after the outcome of performing one of the greatest business comebacks in history. Had they stayed the course and continued to do what they were doing when he said that, they'd have Blackberry'd themselves. JM2C, obviously, and as an Apple fan I'm delighted they didn't follow that advice, for the same reasons I'm delighted they didn't sell themselves to Sun for $24 a share way back when, even if that was a substantial premium over their $18-or-whatever stock price at the time.
- philwelch 14y agoThere was a very wide middle path open to Apple where they just stayed a profitable niche computer maker, and even that would have been a better bet than liquidation. Dell's statements were already falsified by 2001 before the iPod even came out, because Apple was three years profitable and on the verge of solving their Mac OS problems with Mac OS X.
- pla3rhat3r 14y agoAvaya did this and it worked out well for them. Hopefully this will help Dell. They have a good product. Just seems like they've hit a rough patch.