Thanks for the correction. FY's usually end on a quarter but I guess not for Dell, at least now. I thought they used to close in March but that could be wrong too.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-poweredge- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Domsch > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:24 AM > To: Bond Masuda > Cc: Shane Williams; '[email protected]' > Subject: Re: non-Dell hard drives attached to PERC H700 and H800 > > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
