An NCG is a cheap way of replacing experienced workers. MD has no long term vision for the company other than trying to pay down the astronomical debt. As I said, Dell does not innovate, so why keep people around with the experience to really innovate? Dell/EMC storage is very outdated, and there appears to be no emphasis on updating it, and it doesn't take senior engineers to use Intel reference designs to come out with the next generation of servers, so Dell is left with laptops that are designed by sub-contractors, that most people don't need as the market is saturated, and the small incremental improvements don't justify the cost of replacing existing units.