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Merge With Lenovo Group

-410 points posted to Dell by gferrigno 08/06/07

Dell should merge with Lenovo Group. This will put them back as #1 pc maker in the world.

premcv
08/06/07		 No way, man! Ain't happenin! Not now, not ever!

But Unisys could be a very good choice.
jmxz
08/06/07		 If only there were a joke category - this seems a cute parody of Carly-era-HP. "Gee - we can merge with Compaq to become #1 - and then announce layoffs and cutbacks to make us #2 again ".
premcv
08/06/07		 Yea, quite a parody though! :)
jervis961
08/06/07		 Join with Commodore?
premcv
08/06/07		 There were some earlier Ideas that suggested merging Dell with Apple.
jervis961
08/06/07		 Noooo not Apple.
premcv
08/06/07		 Ok, reg, had suggested to merge with HP!
markvs624
08/06/07		 this one is as absure as the dell should buy lenovo idea.
davmcn
08/06/07		 Nah, Personally I Think Dell And Hp Are better off alone. They are too good to become one i need competition. Also if dells want to buy out a lamo company buy out apple Not IBM totally not worth it at least with Apple you would have More MP3'S to sell get rid of Iphone and make a "new" version and You would have another option of Mac Os. Even though i find it very difficult myself to use it. I was gonna add more to this but i forgot what to say. I'll add it later
jmxz
08/06/07		 davmcn: "buy out apple"

LOL.

You do realize that Apple Inc is worth ($117 Billion) just about twice what Dell is ($61 billion), don't you?
jmxz
08/06/07		 Anyway - It's relevant to this Idea that Michael Dell weighed in with his opinion of Lenovo earlier
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=819
In a joint venture between Lenovo and IBM, Michael Dell anticipates the repetition of a pattern seen in many such ventures where two very different organizations fail to mesh. According to CNET News.com’s Stephen Shankland, reporting from this morning’s Q&A session with Dell executives at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, Dell said "We’re not big fans of the idea of taking companies and smashing them together. When was the last time you saw a successful acquisition or merger in the computer industry? It hasn’t happened in a long, long time…I don’t see this one as being all that different."


In defense of this idea, though, Dell seems to be having trouble in China and Lenovo
seems to be doing pretty well

I expect Lenovo's current shareholders would want more than Dell could afford, tho; and since it seems that a chinese government controls almost half the shares of Lenovo its possible they wouldn't let it go at any price.
davmcn
08/07/07		 You guys Apple woud be worth buying out more than IBM.
premcv
08/07/07		 Dell has just been in the news about buying out Zing. So, maybe Unisys should be next in the line, don't you think? I wonder!
davmcn
08/07/07		 Well i can say to dell if your going to buy any company just buy Out Emachines or Acer there machines are pretty impressive right now and it would make a good addition to your Systems
premcv
08/07/07		 How much do you think eMachines or Acer is worth? Is it worth the effort for Dell to go into market to buy out any of these? They did buy Alienware, but the Alienware machines have their own following. But wouldn't Acer systems and Dell systems be in a competition within itself, if it so happens?
mugunth
08/07/07		 Dell is already the leader in laptops... why merge with Lenovo? It's a let donw for dell...
premcv
08/07/07		 Being a leader does not mean that they need not merge. Merging with a company similar to Lenovo, will help Dell gain a foothold in some of the markets that Dell could be struggling to establish themselves in.
davmcn
08/07/07		 I Doubt It, Dell Shouldn't Go to all that trouble and by the way i think Hp designs are way nicer than Dell's
johnpro
08/07/07		 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooo! Dell would ruin the great thinkpad name.
davmcn
08/07/07		 Yeah, Buy Apple if you're gonna make a good move.
premcv
08/07/07		 No Buy Intel, AMD, and Apple together! You get the best of the 3 worlds!!!
jervis961
08/07/07		 Don't buy Lenovo they are buying Packard Bell.
premcv
08/07/07		 Hey jervis!

Oh, they are?
jervis961
08/07/07		 Wassap!
premcv
08/07/07		 Well, here it is: http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSWNAS047320070807
premcv
08/07/07		 Check out reg's and cosh's ideas! Especially cosh's. Hilarious.
jervis961
08/07/07		 I was just looking at them, lots of merges going on again I see.
premcv
08/07/07		 Yes, quite a lot! Especially the Ubuntu Europe related ones.
jervis961
08/07/07		 Still the Europe one is seperate from the around the world one?!? Oh well I see the Linux world ideas are still here.
premcv
08/07/07		 Yes, it should be shouldn't it? Since the Europe one will be a different segment than the rest of the world, me thinks.
winoffice
09/08/07		 Oops I promoted by accident, if it is lenovo that buys Dell and not the other way, then Dell would cease existing.
treyboy
Apr 7		 lenovo rocks without dell... i lke em both lenovo for ultrathin and dell for well... just look at that xps... ooooohhh shiny!
 
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