Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Dell Technologies Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (111447)	3/24/1999 7:22:00 AM
From: kemble s. matter	Respond to of 176387

Mohan, Hi!!! RE: ASAP: What mechanisms do you have in place to make sure the next Internet doesn't sneak up on you? Rollins: We're scouring for anything that could come up and bite us. In fact, we ask ourselves all the time, "What is our greatest fear?" Whenever we find something, we try to figure out how we can embrace it. [An example is] services. And the delivery of a perfect product all the time. In our business, nobody does that very well. We see this huge gap between what we do and what we think the customer wants. Anybody who would come along and do any of those things better, faster, or in a new manner could maybe out-Dell Dell. So we are constantly paranoid. We believe what Andy [Grove] said kind of jokingly-only the paranoid survive. Just one quick check here before I leave today for Pittsburgh...High School Nationals...be back late Sunday....Glad I caught this post before I left... BTW your quote is the one quote that all DELL longs should be paying attention to...These last two paragraphs from Kevin Rollins is what the entire focus and direction of DELL management has been about for a long long time..Thanks once again for keeping the thread informed...and when DELL hits the street over the head with what they are doing...once again this thread will look like the source of true reason... Best, Kemble