Yawn. This is all well and good and some time in the future, it will be HP that is on the short end and someone else will be the leader. Such is the nature of the business.
Wake me up when someone can truly say this about Microsoft being irrelevant. That will be news. HALinNY => -----Original Message----- => From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Anderson => Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 01:37 => To: profox Email List => Subject: [NF] -- Does Dell Matter Anymore? => => => "With Dell's pricing advantage stripped away by => Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and other rivals, solution providers => say Dell's direct mantra seems trite and irrelevant in the => face of service and technical gaffes plaguing the vendor. => => The Dell of today pales in comparison to the major => competitor it was a few years ago, said Sam Haffar, => president and co-CEO of Computex, a solution provider in => Houston. "It used to be difficult to sell against Dell => because of their price points or the ease of doing business => with them. But that's not the case anymore. HP has tweaked => its pricing and Dell has been marginalized. Once you strip => the pricing away, what does Dell have?" => => Haffar said Dell's pain is his gain. In fact, in the past 12 => months he has converted eight Dell accounts in whole or part => to HP because he can offer service and support that Dell => can't match. He said his business grew 35 percent last year, => bolstered by his ability to convert or make inroads into => Dell accounts. And he's on track to grow 35 percent to 40 => percent this year, fueled by his success against Dell, he added. " => => <http://www.crn.com/sections/coverstory/coverstory.jhtml;jses => sionid=1FUIY3QN4SVDUQSNDLSCKHA?articleId=191901795> => => <http://tinyurl.com/qvq3l> _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
