Kevin Rollins
Kevin Rollins
Kevin Barney Rollinsis an American businessman and philanthropist. The former President and CEO of Dell Inc., in 2006 Rollins was named by London's CBR as the 9th Most Influential person in the Enterprise IT sector...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
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Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
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I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.
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The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.
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I believe that one-product wonders come and go.
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Over the last several quarters we have been growing faster in Asia and Europe than any other place on the planet. We have 18 percent of the global PC share, about 12 percent in Europe, and 8 percent in Asia.
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It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.
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What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.
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Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.
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So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services.
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We're seeing healthy demand in key segments of our business, ... Overall it was a pretty strong quarter and there were not a whole lot of surprises for us.
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We're seeing a little bit of a glimmer of hope but I don't think we're quite at a point where we're suggesting a turnaround.
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We have a 3-4 percent market share in India.
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We're not announcing that the market is swinging up.
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I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.