The Road to Global Standardopolis

re: The Road to Global Standardopolis

Mick Russom — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:25:04 GMT

Bone to pick. Linux is not UNIX98/UNIX03 compliant, yet Solaris is.

And Dell has been reticent for years about supporting Solaris. I've been told by reps its not supported because its not a standard!

Dell has changed for the worse and has had noticeable quality drops, selects poor integrated hardware, does not support legacy systems (Supermicro has better legacy support for their old product than Dell), and simply support Windows on servers. All other support is sad. Dell does not pass through upstream firmware updates and drivers very well for such a large company.

I'm not angry or anti-Dell, I buy them, but its like children run the "Running Dell with Serious Operating Systems" department.

Also, EMC is terrible. Should have picked NetApp.

re: The Road to Global Standardopolis

gordon anderson — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:32:00 GMT

The launch of Microsofts latest OS, and the unjustified pressure on businesses to comply with a force-fed upgrade cycle, offering no commercial advantage, presents DELL with a real and a marketing opportunity...

SELL LINUX or at least have a 'No-OS' as a valid option when I buy a dell.

You dont have to support the 250 distros out there - but you could easily bundle Ubuntu with OpenOffice, Firefox as aq solution for desktops and especially small business. You can bundle third party support or just say 'unsupported'. I suspect its not that hard to choose from a list of the popular ones - Redhat commercial, Novell Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu - as your just burning the hard drive from a predefined image.

Micheal Dell..the future awaits. Your systems are good, your support is good [in Australia] .. and bundling Linux is the right-thing-to-do from a technical and an ethical point of view, and will only sell you MORE pcs, not less. Saying there are too many distros is a cop-out.

I think most users who watch the Apple MAC vs PC personality ads have no illusion that the PC really refers to buggy software not buggy hardware - whens the last time anyone you know had a bad disk? Whens the last time anyone you know spent days killing spyware?

You will have the moral authority on your side.

re: The Road to Global Standardopolis

Satisfied User — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:13:51 GMT

I think it was funny, and a change from the boring advertisements I always see. People who are dissatisfied will be that way, regardless of what the clip is about. And yes, the XPS700 isn't all it was made up to be, but before you spend that kind of money, all these smart guys should maybe do some research first and know what they get into. Dells technical specs are readily available at support.dell.com, people who buy something and are upset its not what they expected have no excuse.

re: The Road to Global Standardopolis

Gizmofreak — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:09:07 GMT

Hey it definitely is lonely at the top and then u have to come up with the ideas to make sure that boredom does not creep in which would otherwise make you come down to where other's are !!!!

re: The Road to Global Standardopolis

Adolf Winterer — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:35:43 GMT

Thank you Matt for the Ogg version, I enjoyed it very much. From time to time it's good to have some fun. This is especially true for IT guys. :-)

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employee — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:37:47 GMT

I see the humor and the entertainment reasons behind this video and I think it is great that as a business leader, Mr. Dell felt comfortable using this as an ice breaker. But I think something better could have been done rather than a South Park like cut out of him and others running around singing some song about moving forward. I'm sure it served its purpose and was a great ice breaker for a speech that Mr. Dell had to make. I don't agree that this is too relaxed - but I also disagree that this was a great idea. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and kudos to all for sharing it. My opinion is Dell needs to remain relaxed, but at the same time, still keep the professionalism that has helped get us where we are. So far, Michael and Kevin have done a good job getting us where we are. Yes, there were a few bumps in the road, but other than that, kudos to them. Keep up the great work and continue to focus on what's most important.

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Chris @ Dell — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:06:41 GMT

Obviously you guys have not been to major IT conferences.

"Spoof" videos like this are common and are usually meant to embarass the keynote speaker they are announcing, so this was appropriate for Oracle OpenWorld.

Another example would be a WinHec conference I went to a few years ago. One of the big commercials on TV was the VW bug "Da Da Da" commercial.

Mickeysoft spoofed it to where the guys in the commercial were Bill Gates and Steve Balmer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrwnJDQy0ic

Lighten up, peeps!

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Your Name Here — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:11 GMT

Roberta: "Let's keep it professional, shall we??"

Loosen up... I bet she's a hoot on a dinner date.

It was just animation, and funny, although I did think of Dell's proprietary hardware going back to the PC's Limited days, when I watched it. All in all it was good entertainment whether you think it's factual or not. Kudos to Michael for keeping it real!

And what exactly are "cool points"? How do you get them? Is it like the Marlboro points where you can ttrade them for jackets and pocketknives and stuff?

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david — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:01:16 GMT

Some posters on this blog don't seem to understand that this is not a commercial or music video. It was a multimedia opening to a speech Mr. Dell was giving at Oracle World. It wasn't meant to entertain the masses, it was simply intended to lighten up a group of people who had been sitting for some time waiting for Mr. Dells speech. It also gave a preview of some of the ideas to be covered. I am told that the video was well received and the speech went very well. Mission accomplished. It would do some of the sour pusses on this blog to try not to take life so seriously. Have some fun!

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Adolf Winterer — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:50:00 GMT

The screen shot look like fun, but sadly the video is Windows only, so I can't view it. Please make it available in Ogg format. Thank you.