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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When we got out there (Tuesday), the weather had turned kinda bad. It was cold and windy and not at all like the weather we'd practiced so well in during the past few days. We're just glad to see the kids still perform and not get thrown off by anything, then go out and get the win.
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It has been a very exciting time here in India, running customer support and internal software development centers.
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Our teams in India have integrated well with Dell's operations.
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Our goal has always been to be very aggressive on pricing and make sure we're growing.
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We intend to grow and we intend to take share. We're not seeing any slowdown or any abnormal situation.
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While we're disappointed that we didn't reach our initial revenue target for the quarter, we are very pleased with our ability to deliver industry-leading profitability and consistent growth and earnings,
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Our mindset always says it's not how big the market is but how profitable it can be as the key determiner of whether or not we want to be in it.
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that business has been in and is in a transition phase this year, and a real positive sign was that this quarter. Profits improved in Europe by 24 percent over the first quarter. That's the first step in the transition. We've got a management team that is coming together and we believe that by the fourth quarter, we'll be in very good shape to accelerate growth; and so right now we're very hopeful and positive and the transformation is on track.
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We are not seeing anything fundamentally that's slowing the market down. We just think ... with the normal seasonality changes and the size of our company, this is a good forecast for the market.
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We are disappointed that we didn't hit all of our numbers for the quarter, but we're always looking for better ways to improve the efficiencies of our business,
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We remain confident and optimistic about our business,
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We're extremely pleased with the success of the launch of XPS, ... Customers are not really interested in the trailing edge of technology. What they really want is great technology, the leading edge.
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We're not announcing that the market is swinging up.
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We believe that the fundamentals of our business are still very healthy, and we did beat analysts estimates in terms of our earnings, and saw an opportunity to make a little more money with some slowness in Europe and the government sector. In the second half, we're still confident that the target and goal we have talked to the Street about, the 30 percent growth, is achievable, and believe that seasonally the second half is better, and will be this year as well,