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 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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There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
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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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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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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 have a 3-4 percent market share in India.
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We believe that's a very healthy growth rate for a company of our size and our complexity,
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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.