Michael Dell has made a huge bet that he will be able to turn his company around. The CEO bought nearly $100 million in shares just as the company began to hit its 6 year low. Shares of Dell traded up 4 percent for the day on the news.
Consultado por periodista, Michael Dell afirmó que él ganaría una pelea contra Steve Jobs.
Diario Ti: Michael Dell es el presidente de la mayor compañía fabricante de PC del mundo (o la segunda mayor, dependiendo de los indicadores de HP). Al igual que la mayoría de sus homólogos del rubro PC, Dell destina su tiempo como [...]
Michael Dell was born February 23, 1965 in Houston Texas. During his time at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael started a computer company called PC´s Limited. At the age of 19 he left college to run is company full time, which later became Dell Computer Corporation and in the end Dell Inc. A lot of companies try to become a big time PC sells company but only a few survived in the hard-fought market. Dell became the most profitable PC manufacturer in the world. In 2004 Dell had sales of $49 billion and a profit of $3 billion. Dell today does more than just PC. I my opinion they have the best gamer laptop at the moment (XPSTM M1730 ). Michael, if you should ever read this send my one of these laptops please. Thank you.
Slashdot Linux 00 NOP writes Linux is growing faster in the server space than Windows says the Dell CEO On the server side Linux continues to grow nicely a bit faster than Windows We re seeing a move to Linux in critical applications and Linux migration has not slowed down Read more of this story at Slashdot
“We're fast approaching the point at which there is really no distinction between the .com companies and traditional businesses. The only distinction will be between the winners and losers, and of course, the pace of change at which companies become winners or losers.”
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El director de software de la organización One Laptop per Child responde a DesktopLinux.com que invita al CEO y fundador de Dell, Michael Dell que le ayude como usar mejor las 125 millones de PCs que se tiran porque se consideran demasiado viejas.
Bender respondía a la declaraciones de Dell, que afirmó a principios de esta semana que fabricar portátiles baratas para niños que lo necesiten no ayuda mucho.Las portátiles de $100 que OLPC fabrica y distribuye “no será lo suficientemente avanzada para tener un impacto importante en sus vidas” Dell afirmó. “El problema no es lo que cuesta, sino lo que hace” Dell afirmó en una sesión de preguntas-respuestas a clientes y finalistas en la Dell/National Federation of Independent Business Small-Business Excellence Award. De acuerdo al Sr. Dell, portátiles baratas no van a atender las necesidades de sus usarios, y como ilustración, comentó que de los 125 millones de computadoras fuera de circulación cada año
What kind of computer does Michael Dell have? See for yourself.These and are the PCs Michael is using now!-At home: Dell Precision M90-Also at home: DellTM XPSTM 710 H2C-DellTM XPS M1710 Mobile Gaming System-On the road: Dell LatitudeTM D420-At work: DellTM Precision 690 Source & Image:Dell
Looks like Michael Dell, the iconic oner of Dell Computers, is looking deeper into Linux on Dell computers. According to the corporate Biography Michael uses a Laptop with OpenOffice.org on Ubuntu Linux.
I guess Michael did receive the letter from the OpenOffice.org community offering to satisfy the apparent demand for OpenOffice.org on Dell Computers. May be this prompted him to check it out himself.
Dear Michael,
if you need a help with OpenOffice.org, you are very welcome to join Plan-B for OpenOffice.org where we answer questions and demonstrate the features of OpenOffice.org with screencasts.
Truly Yours,
Kaj
What kind of computer does Michael Dell use at home? Perhaps the Vista 2008 wp super special addition? Well, according to his executive bio he’s running Ubuntu.
At home: Dell Precision M90
Hardware:
Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 Processor
4GB DDR2 667Mhz DRAM
17″ WXGA+ Widescreen LCD
160GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
8X DVD +/- RW optical drive
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 512MB
Software:
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
VMWare Workstation 6 Beta
OpenOffice.org 2.2
Automatix2
Firefox 2.0.0.3
Evolution Groupware 2.10
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The OpenOffice.org community has written a letter to Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell Computers to offer help in making the wishes of their customers happen. Dell Computers recently opened DellIdeaStorm, a website to solicit customer ideas and wishes. One of the top items with over 24,000 votes in two days was OpenOffice.org pre-installed on Dell computers.
The OpenOffice.org community offers in the letter help to make this happen. They are proud that their product is desired by so many of Dell’s customers and want to work with Dell to offer the open source office suite pre-installed as standard or an option.
As of today “Pre-Installed OpenOffice | alternative to MS Works & MS Office” is the second most popular request on DellIdeaStorm with over 75,000 votes.
“I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.”Michael Dell (b. 1965) U.S. chairman and founder of Dell Computer Corporation
Dell declara en un anuncio de prensa los resultados del último trimestre del año fiscal 2007 justo después del cierre de Wall Street, con beneficios de $14 mill millones, ingresos de $801 millones.
Varias son las consecuencias de las ganancias tan bajas, el anuncio de prensa declara:primero, Dell no pagará los bonos a los empleados dado el no haber alcanzado sus objetivos. Dicha reducción impactó las ganacias por acciones en un valor de $186 millones; segundo, los costes de las investigaciones por las prácticas de contabilidad costaron $89 millones, y tercero la venta de propiedades añadieron $36 millones.
Michael Dell declaró en el mismo anuncio que lo que “importa es el plan de acción pata el futuro”, indicando que necesitan alinearse más a las necesidades de sus clientes. La compañía sigue con cambios para unificar líneas de negocios, y hacer más corto el desarrollo de nuevos productos.Michael Dell indicó además que va a tomar tiempo para alcanzar sus o
