Dell could survive if it sold essential commodties (eg: groceries), like Walmart. Unfortunately, it pretends to be a 'technology' company. The extent of 'engineering' at Dell is limited to discussing which ODM's systems to re-badge and what is the cheapest glue to stick the Dell badge on the chassis. Oh and once in a while their "CTO" regurgitates "new technology" from powerpoint slides provided by Intel and other technology providers. Is it just a coincidence that Enron also had a "crooked" E in its logo.... seems to me that both are (or were) trading companies (not really making anything).

Oh well, there's a surprise - a British site spreading yet another negative gossips! We are all DOOMED! DID YOU HEAR?! ALL OF YOU!

Here is a reason one must avoid reading anything published in the UK to stay sane.

I'm not surprised - I asked Dell to quote for 50 desktop machines and around 30 servers and their desktop prices were higher by about £100 than equivalent kit from HP and Acer, and their server prices were double HP's.

Dell offered to 'have a chat' with me when they heard they had not got the business - but I don't work like that and if they were thinking of dropping their prices to win the business I'd only be asking them to explain why they were trying to shaft me with their first quote.

"...there's this downturn thing going on which means all companies are axing staff willy-nilly, cutting costs and generally working out how better to expolit the workers while keeping shareholders in Bolly and bosses in bonuses."
Man, you couldn't have been more succinct and accurate.

Dell supplies a lot of hardware to big companies and these companies are not buying replacement hardware. Dell could be DOA before long as will be many others in the PC and other industries.

When is Dell not planning lay offs? God I hated working there.