On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:30:20AM -0400, Ryan Miller wrote: > Shane, > > FY's are always the year the real year ends in, and always end at > the end of a real-year quarter. Dell books a lot of > end-of-real-year sales that they don't like to close their fiscal > year during, so they close 3/31. Next 3/31 is obviously in 2011, so > we're in FY2011. This is also why March is often a good time to get > deals out of Dell.
I can't comment on the why, but the Dell fiscal year actually runs 2/1/(YYYY-1) to 1/31/(YYYY) for fiscal year YYYY. -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
