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.
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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.
This will be known as the Blame Bush era.
I hope we never get a democrat president again. Ever!
Clinton bashers are such prudes!
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Dumb and Dumber?
If apple was so stupid, why then is the computer industry always following on the creations?
In other words, copying their ideas.
Only 5th dumbest? Dell is slipping!
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Hey, don’t laugh. It is called continuous improvement.
Actually the Army does use Macs. MOS 25V(Combat Camera and Video) use Macs. I tried to enlist as Combat Camera, but they only have 15 slots a year for that MOS and were full when I went to MEPS. So I walked.
As for Bush,
Sometimes being the smartest person in the room is a major problem as well. A lot of times the smartest person in the room can’t see the forest for the trees.
Co inky dink, Dubya is from Connecticut and educated in the Northeast, Phillips, Yale, and Harvard. Texas has enough problems. They don’t need yet another psychological burden like Dubdub.
Why is this story here? Who here gives a shit about Dell?
A President & Vice President from Texas (yes, I know Cheney USED to be from Wyoming) hand over a huge contract to a company based in Texas, that uses CPUs from a company in Texas (AMD). Just like the lion’s share of the money on the Iraq War was handed over in no-bid contracts to Haliburton ( a Texas company) and it’s subsidiary KBR ( also a Texas Company ).
You know the same kind of sh*t happened to KBR (then Brown & Root) back during Vietnam when LBJ (also from Texas) was in office. The moral of this story. Put Texans in the White House and it’s a payday via Warfare, to all your homeboys and cronies.
A President & Vice President from Texas (yes, I know Cheney USED to be from Wyoming) hand over a huge contract to a company based in Texas, that uses CPUs from a company in Texas (AMD). Just like the lion’s share of the money on the Iraq War was handed over in no-bid contracts to Haliburton ( a Texas company) and it’s subsidiary KBR ( also a Texas Company ).
You know the same kind of sh*t happened to KBR (then Brown & Root) back during Vietnam when LBJ (also from Texas) was in office. The moral of this story. Put Texans in the White House and it’s a payday via Warfare, to all your homeboys and cronies.
Q: What do you call someone who graduates last in their class from medical school?
A: Doctor.
Q: What do you call someone who graduates in the bottom of his class from busienss school?
A: President.
Typical liberal logic: take two facts that are superficially related (and boy were those two), then suggest some secret alliance or shadowy conspiracy based upon them. That would get you an F in logic, and it gets you an F in any serious political debate.
As for Dell being overly proud of itself, it does show just how far they have fallen. Why is that Apple news? As Apple brings prices down (see today’s Applematters), Dell gets hit hard.
The Army didn’t choose Dell because Apple’s hardware was sissy. You have to be insane to think that, as all hardware that sees field trials will be ruggedized to withstand the climate. I think it’s probably Apple’s lack of connections with such companies that influences these deals the strongest.
As long as politics are up again I only wish the worse thing goood ol’ Dubby ever did was spooge all over an intern’s dress! In many of his critics’/opponent’s minds, that was Clinton’s worse atrocity. Bush literally gets away with murder & torture.
I still wonder about that Jeff Gannon guy overnighting in the white house though. . . . .
My Dells stock is zooming up!
And my Apple, too!