Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

I recently left Dell for a much higher paying job and a whole lot less stress than at Dell. I do not miss it one bit. This round of layoffs does not surprise me at all and I'm glad I left when I did.

Doubt companies like VMware, Pivotal and etc will be touched soon. Dell needs to understand the internal of their success before hitting them with sledgehammer. There is a reason why Dell acquired EMC and own VMware. Dell is a dinosaur and that's the fact for quite a while now. Hardware is slowing down and PC is drying out. Cloud and virtualization is doing great and responsible for chewing into the hardware businesses. That's why Dell tried to reinvent itself and hoping for breakthrough in this merger. I would imagine, finance, hr, marketing across the board would get hit first. Then comes down to unwanted Dell engineering . then EMC then all these smaller child companies. Combined company have over 150K. 2-3k is nothing. Add another 0 might make more sense.

anyone that thinks that 2-3k workers RIF'd is all that's going to happen is either gullible or just an idiot. As usual, the IC's (especially the higher paid older workers who are the only ones with real experience) will take it in he shorts and the management will be left untouched. I left Dell a long time ago and never looked back. You should all try to do so before the market is more flooded that it is now with unemployed experienced engineers.

why is this news? did anyone really think that this merger wouldn't create significant redundancy in operational, support, and administrative areas? if 2000-3000 layoffs is the real number, then dell technologies should be applauded for keeping the number that low.