Dance of Dell

The World Congess on Information Technology (WCIT) concluded on the 5th of May inTexas. Nothing very new happened there. But the news that caused ripples was Dell joining the Green Grid. Though Dell is not a technology company (all it does it assembling PCs that aren't even best in the world) and what steps it takes haven't ever bothered me.

Though Dell was not alone to join the nexus, APC and VMware also joined the Green Grid along witgh Dell. Since few years Dell has seen its server market slump against the energy efficient and faster Opteron powered servers sold by Sun, HP, IBM and many more. Knowing the fact that enterprise customers do full study before deciding on what product to buy, and hence calculate the profitabilities like no other home user does; Dell can't cater them just anything that sells by its name.

The Green Grid comprises of companies like AMD, IBM, HP, Rackable Systems and Egenera; and I don't find Dell standing anywhere near them if technological abilities are considered. The main purpose of forming this group was to do research and development to increase computing power by reducing the energy consumptions of processors in future. I wonder how could dell help in doing that.

Dell's move only shows the level of distrust that even the staunch supporters of Intel have in it. Afterall How many of the Intel's claims have come true so far. HP has already paid much price for having blind faith on Intel regarding the Itanium. Dells message is clear, we sell intel products only because it sells ( it's the product of general masses) but it hasn't got a future for sure.