| Date | Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:34:40 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:38:33AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 21:05, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Let's see, Dell has a $66B market cap, revenues of $8B/quarter and > > $500M/quarter in profit. > > While I understand these numbers are on the mark, there is a tertiary > issue to realize. > > Dell makes money on many things other than thin-margin PCs. And lo' > and behold one of those things is selling the larger Intel based > servers and support contracts to go along with that.
I did some digging trying to find that ratio before I posted last night and couldn't. You obviously think that the servers are a significant part of their business. I'd be surprised at that, but that's cool, what are the numbers? PC's, monitors, disks, laptops, anything with less than 4 cpus is in the little bucket, so how much revenue does Dell generate on the 4 CPU and larger servers? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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