Dell has its marching orders,” Colin Barr reports for TheStreet.com in his article, “The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week.”
“The Round Rock, Texas, PC giant got the go-ahead this week on a big U.S. Army supply contract. The Defense Department agreed to buy computers, displays, printers and peripherals from Dell and others under the so-called Army Desktop Mobile Computing-2 contract. All told, the deal could be worth $5 billion over 10 years,” Barr reports. “That news was well received at Dell, which of late has had precious little good news to report.”
“‘Because of our long history and direct relationship with the U.S. Army, we have a thorough understanding of its technology requirements, both domestically and abroad,’ said Troy West, vice president of Dell’s federal business segment,” Barr reports. “And shrugging off the inconvenient fact that eight other companies share the contract, including rival Hewlett-Packard and CDW, West adds that Dell is ‘uniquely positioned to support the Army’s global needs.’ Or at least uniquely proud of itself.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: U.S. Army: Dells for word processing, Apple Macs for supercomputing.
The first one to guess what movie quote the headline is based upon wins the “First Post to Guess What Movie Quote the Headline is Based Upon” Award!
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And this is Mac news in which way….? yay for dell or what?
just what you need…. blue screen of death just as you need to ‘press the button’ lol
bush is from texas
dell is in texas
is dubby doin a favor for his kin?
As this was announced, terrorists around the world collectively breathed a sigh of relieve.
This move ought to ensure the Army being bogged down in Iraq for at least the next 10 years.
Whats a Dell?
Bush bashers are such idiots!
I’m sure W has bigger problems to worry over than this, which means he will be accused of something, no matter what he does.
“Down! Down, dumb dog!”
– Garfield (2004)
You know, the US Military is highly security oriented, they would love to have a rock solid OS like Mac OS X running the show.
Too bad it’s tied to sissy looking hardware.
Apple looses again, and so does the security of our armed forces.
STUPID APPLE.