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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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.
beat believe business confident estimates europe goal government half money opportunity percent saw second slowness street talked target terms year
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,
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We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.
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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.
quarter toughest
The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.
desktop ends growth low met notebook offer operating profitable pursuing targets
Much of the industry's quarterly growth was at the low ends of the desktop and notebook categories, which offer little if any profitability. Dell met its operating targets by pursuing profitable growth.
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As we continue to attract new customers worldwide, our team in India has played a vital role in the company's operations.
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If that agreement and relationship expand, so be it. It could be a good thing, (but) we don't have anything to announce.
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From electronic health-care records to drug interaction databases, we're already seeing the positive role that technology can play in modernizing our country's health-care system while protecting patient privacy. Carried out in the right way, these recommendations can bring about continued improvements to traditional health care that will benefit patients and providers.
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If you look at Internet companies today that have no earnings but have a lot of stock value and the high cost to buy them, we can't see in our business model where it makes a whole lot of sense,
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is much smoother and much more consistent over time.
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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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The weakest part of our overall business is in U.S. corporate sales in general, probably desktops,
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Our goal has always been to be very aggressive on pricing and make sure we're growing.