Comments on: Deal to give the money back to the shareholders, take beleaguered Dell private could happen Monday

By: The Other Steve

The Other Steve — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:37:11 +0000

“to conduct that difficult makeover away from public scrutiny”

Rearranging the deck chairs on Titanic won’t help.
You can either come up with products that people want to pay for (not give away) or you can’t. Having shareholders doesn’t help or hurt in that effort. Look at Apple.

By: The joker

The joker — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:48:03 +0000

Funny how the rabid drooling Apple fan boys laugh at Dell now, yet at the same time, want Apple to go private.

Once Dell is private Wall Street will have more time to whinge over Apple.

Then the diaper wearing fan boys can wish Apple was Dell.

By: RedBear

RedBear — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:18:14 +0000

Cornell University just wallows in Dells, with the Tech Department demanding they be purchased as we watch the new Bill and Melinda Gates Hall rise on campus as we speak. The IT dept. loves Dell, it’s job security while the staff stay counterproductive on old OS’s that run old Winblows software. Crashes, fighting virus and spyware, rebuilding, downtime, slow processing, and suffering through rewritten document names for files transferred to servers who’s OS is so crude it can’t handle a long title and s0 renames it with gibberish characters. But hey, we got that new building going for us.

By: MacRaven

MacRaven — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:07:55 +0000

Too bad Steve can’t be here to thoroughly enjoy this event when it happens.

By: Gerry Attrick

Gerry Attrick — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:10:16 +0000

Hmmm. Not sure Dell and value should be in the same sentence

By: kentkd34

kentkd34 — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:04:35 +0000

“Who would have believed” ?

Me. I work in a school system with 3,000 thin client Dell machines.

The only saving grace for them is that they require a lot of maintenance, therefore the IT techs have a lot of experience with repeated issues, therefore they are “easy” to work on!

See how life can be made so simple?

By: Critic2

Critic2 — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:31:12 +0000

Actually no he isn’t. He is actually BETTING most of his money on the company. He has more of his own money committed to Dell than Steve Jobs ever did at Apple.

By: LordRobin

LordRobin — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:59:40 +0000

Looking forward to “Apple now worth infinite times Dell’s value” post on MDN.

——RM

By: Iarts

Iarts — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:56:14 +0000

I guess michael dell took the advice he once gave to Apple. “give the money back to the shareholders!”

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:36:35 +0000

By: rainer_d

rainer_d — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:39:28 +0000

Steve Jobs is watching from an (i)cloud and smiling, saying nothing.

By: Anton Dubinski

Anton Dubinski — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:38:59 +0000

The way things have been going for Apple stock lately they should consider doing the same.

By: correctu

correctu — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:12:58 +0000

How ironic. Wow!

This is Dell hanging onto Windows coattails and not having a second alternative to it. Next up is Microsoft not knowing where to properly put their marbles. (Hint #1: In order to effectively sell applications, you need to sell them where the customers are. Hint #2: It’s not on a Surface.)

Don’t listen to these people in these forums, Ballmer! They’re trying to trick you! You’re knee deep in shit and you have stupid colorful blocks parading as an operating system and your company is going to die.

By: Nishanth

Nishanth — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:50:11 +0000

If this is indeed true then you have to give it to Dell that he did walk the talk. That in itself does take a lot of guts. But I will have my reservation of a turnaround of dell or any PC manufacturers in the wake of the iOS (maybe to a certain extent Android) assault on them.
One thing is certain, If PC or even Microsoft will continue to fall by the wayside until they work to make things simpler to the consumers with regards to Software licensing and Hardware warranty, which in its present form is a living nightmare for windows PC owners.

By: iSundanceTaos

iSundanceTaos — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 06:15:35 +0000

Unfortunately for Dell’s employees, this could point to another round of RIF (only this time and onward, number of layoff will be kept secret) is coming.

any thought?

By: BoC

BoC — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 04:58:18 +0000

I can not see how the “investors” who are taking Dell private can get a good return on their investment.

Secrets? Possibly. But then don’t those have to be discussed with existing shareholders. Someone has already said Michael Dell is conflicted in this transaction.

By: Jubei

Jubei — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:00:17 +0000

If it happens, I wish Steve was here to see all of this. hahaha stupid idiot!

By: btaylor

btaylor — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:50:25 +0000

I know right?! oh how the mighty’s………eyes have grown even closer together.

Michael Dell is evolving into a cyclops.

Perhaps Dell can use this time to focus on a “Singular Vision”

By: Cubert

Cubert — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:53:41 +0000

Dell is trying to remake themselves as a cloud hosting company, however, every person I know (close to a dozen) who has used them for their company has said that they are absolutely TERRIBLE in every way shape and form.

By: Dan The Man

Dan The Man — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:48:19 +0000

Irony is a bitch.

By: James

James — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:33:44 +0000

Actually, back in the day, Steve Jobs did indeed tell Dell that Apple had them ‘in their sights’. I reckon this is mission accomplished.

By: Ansel

Ansel — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:13:29 +0000

Mickey is doing what he would do if he was the CEO of Dell …..

Geewhiz does anybody remember his speech in 1998, Micky said what you would do if he was CEO of Dell ….. Sell the company and return the money to the shareholders that’s what Micky said and he was CEO of Dell Computer …..

Thought it was Dell but when I looked up, it was Apple ….. My mistake sorry guys / girls …. My error …..

Hey Micky, what happened bro?

By: Jeff II

Jeff II — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:49:57 +0000

Going private would allow Dell, which has been trying to become a one-stop shop for corporate technology needs as the PC market shrinks, to conduct that difficult makeover away from public scrutiny.

What’s Mikey trying to hide away from “public scrutiny” here?

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:46:11 +0000

I hope we keep in mind that Apple’s successes these past 15 years wasn’t intended to teach Dell a lesson.
I hope Apple keeps going on to bigger successes and never has to ever look back again.

By: peterblood71

peterblood71 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:05:30 +0000

“Hey Mikey, taking your marbles back and refusing to play?”

Ahh the contraction before the beautiful super-nova blows things to smithereenies.

By: Artist

Artist — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:55:43 +0000

Yes! I would love that. It should be about making great products and not to worry about the bottom line for wall street

By: Jmk

Jmk — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:30:04 +0000

Sweet, sweet vengeance. Never gets old.

By: lawrence

lawrence — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:29:56 +0000

Truth really can be strange than fiction! Who would have believed this would happen one day to Dell? The headlines marking each time apple was X times larger than Dell must have gotten to him…

By: iSundanceTaos

iSundanceTaos — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:29:55 +0000

I guess Dell is getting tired and sick of Wall Street’s ANAL-ysts… Perhaps, Apple should consider the same move?! no?!

my 2 cents…

By: macaholic

macaholic — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:18:07 +0000

Karma is a bitch!