Michael Dell: "IBM-deal becomes a failure"
Through the purchase of IBM pc-division, the Chinese Lenovo has self in the topdrie of pc-makers gekatapulteerd. Market leader Dell is not however under the impression. Chairman Michael Dell expects that the samensmelting, neat as many other mergers in the ICT-industry, doomed are to be failed.
“We believe not in the just bijeengooien of two businesses”, declared Michel Dell. “How long is it not ago that we yet a successful take-over purchase or merger saw in the computer industry” That is all whole, quite long ago… I see not in that the result of this agreement otherwise will be.”
According to Michael Dell, its business had no interest in the purchase of the pc-division of IBM. “We want our customersforbring in. We see such growth as more permanent and more healthily”, according to Dell.
In her twenty-year existence, Dell has done only a handful of take-over purchases, all on relative limited scale. The take-over purchase of ConvergeNet, largest in the history of the business, no undivided success yielded. Dell dismantled the division single months after the purchase.
Michael Dell said further that the sale connect by the strategy of IBM self ankle to concentrate on back-end computer systems. For Dell however a core activity remains the production of pc's.
Investigation desk Gartner plays that yet more manufacturers will stop with the production of pc's. “Van the top-10 pc-manufacturers is single Dell the last years continuously profitable.” If the profit margins remain go down, expects Gartner that also HP self will withdraw from the pc-market.