I find it funny (and rather sad) that people on this board say that Michael Dell has good intentions, and that he cares etc.....
Having worked for Dell for 15 years, and having spent 30 years in the Hi-Tech industry, I can honestly say that Michael Dell is no better than the majority of the Hi-Tech CEO's. He cares about himself, and his image, and nothing else. His ego is even larger than the debt he has taken on, and having made a fool of himself and his company through one bad step after another, finally took it private so as to remove scrutiny from the stock holders. Dell hasn't had an original idea in many years, taking the trail of fast followers, which means he copies what others have done first, and then tries to play catch up against real technology companies. The purchase of EMC was just another example of trying to catch up, but EMC itself has such outdated technology that it too will fail. Dell is a very unstable house of cards, and is doomed to fail unless MD finally grows some cajones and really restructures the company, including reducing the workforce by at the very least 1/3rd, cleans house of the good old boy network of cronies, and quits cutting his experienced engineering teams to save a buck. 5-10 years from now (if not sooner), they will join the ranks of the many failed Hi-tech companies that have fallen by the wayside due to mismanagement and their unwillingness to keep up, and invest in , new technologies