Dell was great before EMC. I'm sure EMC was just fine before Dell. What did Dell in was going public. Period, end of story. You can thank the likes of Silver Lake and BlackRock. This was a money grab, pure and simple. Chuck helped to orchestrate that money grab and then ducked out while everything was ablaze. Second biggest mistake was selling off VMware.
This is 100 percent it. @ztp+1o1NatPw got it right.
@3sgq+1o2dQmXg I come at this from a neutral perspective having seen both companies in action. EMC had an enterprise sale force that knew what they were doing. If they had faults it was that they were too hard nosed and thought they were the smartest people on earth. However, Dell sales people made their numbers selling laptops and monitors. They also sold severs at velocity competing solely on price. They had no idea how to sell data center solutions.
Dell is cheap as F. They buy companies (prior to EMC, c players) and cut costs and expenses to the bone. They prioritize squeezing expenses over growing revenue. That’s very shortsighted unless you can keep buying companies and make your money back before you run them into the ground.
L-EMC needs to get in line or get out. There is a reason Dell bought you. “Merger” was b.s. soft language to keep EMC scrubs happy. I’ve never seen a more unorganized sales/support structure than what EMC brought with them, and they still cling to it. Should have been way more EMC cuts when Dell took over. Also, VMWare was always trash as an organization. Broadcom is enjoying that headache. Hope I hurt some feelings.
Dell has absolutely foolish leadership. Dell has no idea how to build software. The closest Dell ever came is building an e-commerce site and mobile apps. That isn’t innovative and building mobile operational apps isn’t either. Dell thinks software engineering is in IT. Dopes. They have an entire 20+ billion dollar organization called ISG which is primarily software and new organizations which are only software. Get out of the way Dell. The only thing you do is stop progress.
I’m yet to meet a legacy Dell person who understands enterprise sales.
I don't know about that. Michael Dell was all too happy to defraud investors out of 6 billion dollars. Greedy ba----d!
A disturbing trend I’m seeing in business in general in the last 10 years is investment companies and other finance bigwigs ki-ling formerly profitable businesses to make a quick buck and then bailing.
They don’t care about the future of the business or customers at all and in some cases can make more money for themselves and their buddies by bankrupting a business than they can make trying to squeeze margin out of product sales. The games finance people play should be illegal but here we are. I wouldn’t be surprised if Dell as a company goes completely under in the next decade.
Worst thing that happened to EMC was Dell. Dell has no clue what enterprise service/support means. They don't understand storage and think partners are now suddenly, going to sell Dell storage because Dell has treated them so great in the past.