(Michael) Dell is very intelligent and very low-profile. He's making more
money with a company that's a fraction of the size and headaches as HP. In
some ways, he's the Henry Ford of our era. He's revolutionized some
business and manufacturing processes.
I just bought a 2.4 Ghz Dell PC for $499 including LCD monitor. We opened
it up..incredibly simple, efficient design...there's only one board
inside...fan funnels to processor in a very clever and efficient way. If
it weren't for the CDRW and floppy drives, you wouldn't even need the
enclosure.
John Lee
At 09:35 AM 7/24/03 -0700, Emerson, Tom wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chuck Ryan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>
>> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5051569.html
>>
>Hmmm... while everyone is focused on how hot the ink is, did anyone else
catch the line
>
> "All the while, Fiorina is going about the refashioning of HP's company
culture, a process that picked up steam with the Compaq merger. Her
ambition: accelerate the corporate metabolism while still retaining the
positive legacy embodied in the famed "HP Way." "
>
>The phrase "accellerate the corporate metabolism" really caught my eye --
doesn't metabolism indicate how fast an entity burns fuel and produce waste?
>
>Further down, there is a serious "ouch" line -- too bad it couldn't apply
to our favorite...
>
>[CF] ...(Dell's) a great company, but what they're trying to do now is
not going to be as easy as what they've done for the last five years. And
what they've done for the last five years is tune to perfection a single
way of doing business around a relatively narrow product line.
>
>[cnet] But why does that narrow a product line sell?
>[CF] Because they do a good job at it.
>
>Taken the other way, it could be seen as admission that HP doesn't know
beans about selling "a narrow product line" :)
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