Dell makes most it's money providing enterprise volume orders of desktops/laptop computers, repair parts, and certifying+insuring people to work on these computers.
EMC also contractually guarantees data integrity with some of it's higher end products/contracts. As does IBM/HP/Oracle. All your FOSS tools don't offer this, so your company has to shoulder this responsibility yourself.
Underwriting insurance on multi-million dollar contracts isn't something you can just disrupt unless you already have the funds necessary to burn all the way though series B laying around on your person. In which case, isn't their an easier idea to execute?
>Dell makes most it's money providing enterprise volume orders of desktops/laptop computers
I wish they'd bring back the E6400/E6500 style of enterprise Latitude laptops, but of course with modern internals. These newer ones are much uglier and the screens are too short.
Economies of scale. Everyone wanted a high def 16:9 display, so the dyes for 4:3 became too expensive. I also miss my visually perfect 16:10, but alias time marches on.
I completely disagree. I'm sorry, but I find it impossible to believe that enterprise IT departments and businesses were jumping up and down for 16:9 displays. Maybe all the stupid consumers wanted them, but consumers are not the target customer for enterprise laptops.
I think it's much more likely that the laptop makers saw an opportunity to save money by going to 16:9 because of the massive growth in 16:9 LCD screens thanks to TVs, because the LCD factories were pushing them for economies of scale.
EMC also contractually guarantees data integrity with some of it's higher end products/contracts. As does IBM/HP/Oracle. All your FOSS tools don't offer this, so your company has to shoulder this responsibility yourself.
Underwriting insurance on multi-million dollar contracts isn't something you can just disrupt unless you already have the funds necessary to burn all the way though series B laying around on your person. In which case, isn't their an easier idea to execute?