Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

Dell is not irrelevant

Dell is a commodity hardware provider. Dell only has 3 competitors in PCs and servers. Because there are few competitors incompetence can flourish. Leadership can get away with being extraordinary and shockingly ineffective and the business will not suffer. The industry is flooded with no skill employees whose only skill is to inflate data in spreadsheets. If Dell invented a unique innovative solution they would not be stuck in this low margin commodity sinkhole. Unfortunately Dell's legacy is to copy what others have already created or bolt together components simeone else made and charge less. That's fine but it is not a real innovation. Doesn't require much skill. Hence employees and leaders are disposable.

Well said, @1rds+1tovVenN.

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Super Micro is eating Dell's lunch, still making tons of money while Dell is selling at negative margins.

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Powerflex is an overpriced solution with a niche market it wont save the company.

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If bottled water is a commodity there would be no Dasani or Deer Park. Only generic bottled water.

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If hardware is a pure commodity, as you say, then HPE, Dell, Lenovo and Apple all die out, and every device becomes a white box product.

A laptop is a commodity. A MacBook isn't. A server is a commodity, but a PowerFlex isn't. There are ways to decommoditize products, with the most obvious being to tie them to software.

How about Nvidia? Would you say GPU's are pure commodities?

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