Help me understand this. We buy companies. Some of them are good, some su-k, so quality varies. What's constant is what we do after the acquisition. We always run them into the ground, destroy any value that exists, they stop innovating or developing technology, and the whole thing turns out to be a dud. Why does this always happen?
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Because Dell does not have the technical leadership nor the technical engineering skills to advance an acquisition's technology. This has been proven over and over and over again. Dell acquires companies for existing revenue streams and milks them until they're gone.
@ex It only took a few months after being bought by dell for Alienware's quality eo take a major nosedive. Once the existing inventory sold off Dell starting stuffing them with the same junk as goes into their optiplexes.
Outside of Alienware I can't really think of a purchase Dell made that worked out.
Alienware worked out because for many years they left it alone. Only in the last few years has Alienware started to su-k.
@ba yeah keep dreaming
@b5 V5 will be here any day now!!!
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@OP Because Dell does not have the technical leadership nor the technical engineering skills to advance an acquisition's technology. This has been proven over and over and over again. Dell acquires companies for existing revenue streams and milks them until they're gone.
@b1 If getting a dell power label slapped in it counts, then yeah EMCs stuff totally made it into the product lines. Problem is Dell hasn't maintained the talent required to build upon any former EMC products and/or come up with the next big thing.
@ay Well yeah, there are plenty of acquisitions that (seemingly at least) just went to die but Force10, Wyse, Compellent and EMC definitely made it into the product lines.
@ar Sorry, wrong. They are not bought for the IP. Dell wouldn't know what to do with another company's IP if it bit them in the a-s. They don't take another company's IP and plow it into any of their own products because Dell engineering doesn't have the skill set or the technical expertise to do so. They simply buy companies to milk existing revenue streams until they're done. Look at the boneyard of previous acquisitions. They all end the same.
They are probably bought for the IP because the lack of in house innovation, the companies themselves go exactly the same path as the overall company, just on a shorter timeframe.
@OP Because Dell does not have the technical leadership nor the technical engineering skills to advance an acquisition's technology. This has been proven over and over and over again. Dell acquires companies for existing revenue streams and milks them until they're gone.