Dell @ HP Americas Partner Conference

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Mike Jones — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:40:53 GMT

Dell is a great company with great vision. I have owned several businesses in my life and daddy always told me to locate as close to the competition as possible. The talk of this being unethical is hillarious. If Dell really wanted to make a splash they should have opened a hospitality tent at the Bellagio for the partners to come to after the boring speeches HP gave. Even better Dell should have rented PURE and sponsored huge parties the same nights the HP convention was in town. If we want to bring ethics into this, does anyone remember the Corp spying of HP, i think there are some HP employees without jobs now and even worse in prison.

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James — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:04:03 GMT

We were hesitant to become a Dell partner but after this move from Dell we defiantly lost all confidence in such an unethical company.

A company with such a business model would possibly be the first company to sell all of its partners and compete against them once those partners register Dell deals and share their end users' info.

And to the person saying : "Business is a game", I think there is a difference between a clean smart business game and a dirtily childish one.

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Anon. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:14:50 GMT

Well it's a dog eat dog world and I own an Asian Food Restaurant. Unforunately that is the world we live in.

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glamanna — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:35:18 GMT

What a bunch of CRY-BABIES. So Dell went to an HP event and handed out some literature. And? Is there some kind of boundary that exists where Dell speaking about its own business strategies is ... what? ... wrong? You folks act as if Dell hyjacked the official proceedings and substituted its own content for the meetings.

Would it have been any different if Dell had plastered up large advertisements all over the hotel where HP had its event? What's the difference between what Dell did and the Dish network buying advertising on a cable channel? No laws or rules were broken. Business is a game. Have some fun. Be creative. GET A LIFE.

What you folks are talking about is pure censorship. I find THAT unethical.

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barb — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:22:43 GMT

I have to wonder if this makes Dell employees proud.

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RW — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:19:42 GMT

I say way to go Dell. Dell has always been a bit brash and edgy and that is okay with me, it has served them well. In the early days I remember seeing billboards in Houston right near the Compaq campus saying 158 miles to opportunity -- no one took them seriously at that point but they should have. What I like about Dell is when they want something, like market segment domination, they just set their sites on it and go for it. Watch out HP...they are coming for your partners....don't blink...

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Joe K — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:45:24 GMT

Good to see Dell taking off the gloves.

A sign of things to come as Dell targets HP partners and customers.

Great Marketing, Targeted with high ROI.

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WhatI — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:08:58 GMT

Not as unethical as every other advertiser out there. Want something to complain about? What about the "enlargement" ads running during daytime tv programming? Infact, TV commercials should be given a rating system and a v-chip to block them with. :)

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aL — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:19:31 GMT

HILARIOUS Dell! Hurd is killing you guys.

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Bryan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:41:25 GMT

I'm with one of the previous comments by Jim about past behavior. I do recall in my previous job at Dell we were required to take an online business ethics class and one of the main points was to NOT talk bad about the competition when talking with clients. In fact, I try to do the same thing in my new capacity. This behavior seems to conflict with that few and seems to be of a more "guerilla" advertising tactic. I think it will do more harm than good.

Combine that with the fact that I can still get better pricing from my Premier Page than the Partner Page, it makes me question the great value of being a "Partner".