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</a> <ul id="toc-Dell_2.0_and_downsizing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Attempts_at_diversification" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Attempts_at_diversification"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.5</span> <span>Attempts at diversification</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Attempts_at_diversification-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2013_buyout" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2013_buyout"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.6</span> <span>2013 buyout</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2013_buyout-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Recent_history" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Recent_history"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7</span> <span>Recent history</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Recent_history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Acquisition_of_EMC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Acquisition_of_EMC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.7.1</span> <span>Acquisition of EMC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Acquisition_of_EMC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dell_and_AMD" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dell_and_AMD"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.8</span> <span>Dell and AMD</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dell_and_AMD-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dell_and_desktop_Linux" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dell_and_desktop_Linux"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.9</span> <span>Dell and desktop Linux</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dell_and_desktop_Linux-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Corporate_affairs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Corporate_affairs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Corporate affairs</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Corporate_affairs-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Corporate affairs subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Corporate_affairs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Business_trends" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Business_trends"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Business trends</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Business_trends-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Senior_leadership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Senior_leadership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Senior leadership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Senior_leadership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-List_of_chairmen" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#List_of_chairmen"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.1</span> <span>List of chairmen</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-List_of_chairmen-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-List_of_chief_executives" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#List_of_chief_executives"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.2</span> <span>List of chief executives</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-List_of_chief_executives-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-List_of_Dell_marketing_slogans" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#List_of_Dell_marketing_slogans"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>List of Dell marketing slogans</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-List_of_Dell_marketing_slogans-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Acquisitions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Acquisitions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Acquisitions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Acquisitions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dell_facilities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dell_facilities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Dell facilities</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Dell_facilities-sublist" class="cdx-button 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subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Products-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Scope_and_brands" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Scope_and_brands"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Scope and brands</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Scope_and_brands-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Security" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Security"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Security</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Security-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Security subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Security-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Self-signed_root_certificate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Self-signed_root_certificate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Self-signed root certificate</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Self-signed_root_certificate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Dell_Foundation_Services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Dell_Foundation_Services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Dell Foundation Services</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dell_Foundation_Services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Commercial_aspects" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Commercial_aspects"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Commercial aspects</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Commercial_aspects-sublist" class="cdx-button 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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2.1</span> <span>Dell partner program</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Dell_partner_program-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Global_analytics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Global_analytics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2.2</span> <span>Global analytics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Global_analytics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Criticisms_of_marketing_of_laptop_security" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Criticisms_of_marketing_of_laptop_security"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2.3</span> <span>Criticisms of marketing of laptop security</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Criticisms_of_marketing_of_laptop_security-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Retail" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Retail"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Retail</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Retail-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-United_States" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_States"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3.1</span> <span>United States</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_States-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Kiosks" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kiosks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3.1.1</span> <span>Kiosks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kiosks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Retail_stores" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Retail_stores"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3.2</span> <span>Retail stores</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Retail_stores-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Competition" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Competition"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4</span> <span>Competition</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Competition-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Partnership_with_EMC" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Partnership_with_EMC"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.5</span> <span>Partnership with EMC</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Partnership_with_EMC-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Environmental_record" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Environmental_record"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Environmental record</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Environmental_record-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Environmental record subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Environmental_record-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Green_initiatives" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Green_initiatives"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Green initiatives</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Green_initiatives-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Criticism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Criticism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Criticism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Criticism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" 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Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%84_(%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%AA)" title="دل (شیرکت) – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="دل (شیرکت)" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2" title="ডেল – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ডেল" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Дел – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Дел" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Technologies" title="Dell Technologies – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Dell Technologies" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%84_(%D8%B4%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%AA)" title="دل (شرکت) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دل (شرکت)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B8" title="델 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="델" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2" title="डेल – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="डेल" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%9C" title="דל – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דל" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A1%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%8D" title="ಡೆಲ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಡೆಲ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_(societas_mercatoria)" title="Dell (societas mercatoria) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Dell (societas mercatoria)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2" title="डेल – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="डेल" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BD" title="ഡെൽ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഡെൽ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2_(%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80)" title="डेल (कंपनी) – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="डेल (कंपनी)" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2" title="डेल – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="डेल" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB" title="デル – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="デル" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%88%E0%A9%B1%E0%A8%B2" title="ਡੈੱਲ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਡੈੱਲ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%D9%84" title="ڈل – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ڈل" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%89%DB%90%D9%84" title="ډېل – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ډېل" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell,_Inc." title="Dell, Inc. – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Dell, Inc." data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%99%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8A" title="ඩෙල් – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="ඩෙල්" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%86%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%AF%DB%8E%DA%B5" title="کۆمپانیای دێڵ – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="کۆمپانیای دێڵ" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D" title="டெல் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="டெல்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%8C" title="เดลล์ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เดลล์" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/DELL_%D8%B4%D9%89%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%89%D8%AA%D9%89" title="DELL شىركىتى – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="DELL شىركىتى" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell" title="Dell – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Dell" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" 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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American multinational technology company</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Dell Inc." redirects here. 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Ticker_symbol" title="Ticker symbol">Traded as</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nasdaq" title="Nasdaq">Nasdaq</a>:&#160;DELL</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">Personal computers</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">Computer software</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">May&#160;3, 1984<span class="noprint">&#59;&#32;40 years ago</span><span style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1984-05-03</span>)</span> in <a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Dell" title="Michael Dell">Michael Dell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Round_Rock,_Texas" title="Round Rock, Texas">Round Rock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">US<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Worldwide</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Key people</div></th><td class="infobox-data agent"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Dell" title="Michael Dell">Michael Dell</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chairperson" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairperson">chairman</a> &amp; <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a>)</li><li>Jeff Clarke (<a href="/wiki/Chairperson" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairperson">vice chair</a> &amp; <a href="/wiki/Chief_operating_officer" title="Chief operating officer">COO</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Personal_computers" class="mw-redirect" title="Personal computers">Personal computers</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Server_(computing)" title="Server (computing)">Servers</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Peripheral" title="Peripheral">Peripheral</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Decrease"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> <span style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>88.4 billion</span> (2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;">&#8201;120,000</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dell_Technologies" title="Dell Technologies">Dell Technologies</a> (2016–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dell.com/">dell.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Dell Inc.</b> is an American <a href="/wiki/Technology_company" title="Technology company">technology company</a> that develops, sells, repairs, and supports <a href="/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">personal computers</a> (PCs), <a href="/wiki/Server_(computing)" title="Server (computing)">servers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Data_storage" title="Data storage">data storage</a> devices, <a href="/wiki/Network_switch" title="Network switch">network switches</a>, <a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a>, computer <a href="/wiki/Peripheral" title="Peripheral">peripherals</a> including printers and <a href="/wiki/Webcam" title="Webcam">webcams</a> among other products and services. Dell is based in <a href="/wiki/Round_Rock,_Texas" title="Round Rock, Texas">Round Rock, Texas</a>. </p><p>Founded by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Dell" title="Michael Dell">Michael Dell</a> in 1984, Dell started making <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a> <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible" title="IBM PC compatible">clone</a> computers and pioneered selling cut-price PCs directly to customers,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> managing its <a href="/wiki/Supply_chain_management" title="Supply chain management">supply chain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Electronic_commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="Electronic commerce">electronic commerce</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bw1103_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bw1103-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-statesman_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statesman-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The company rose rapidly during the 1990s<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in 2001 it became the largest global PC vendor for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell was a pure hardware vendor until 2009 when it acquired <a href="/wiki/Perot_Systems" title="Perot Systems">Perot Systems</a>. Dell then entered the market for IT services. The company has expanded storage and networking systems. In the late 2000s, it began expanding from offering computers only to delivering a range of technology for enterprise customers.<sup id="cite_ref-reut_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reut-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell is a subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/Dell_Technologies" title="Dell Technologies">Dell Technologies</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Public_company" title="Public company">publicly traded company</a>, as well as a component of the <a href="/wiki/NASDAQ-100" class="mw-redirect" title="NASDAQ-100">NASDAQ-100</a> and <a href="/wiki/S%26P_500" title="S&amp;P 500">S&amp;P 500</a>. Dell is ranked 31st on the Fortune 500 list in 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> up from 76th in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is also the sixth-largest company in Texas by total revenue, according to <i>Fortune</i> magazine. It is the second-largest non-oil company in Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 2024,<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup> it is the <a href="/wiki/Market_share_of_personal_computer_vendors" title="Market share of personal computer vendors">world's third-largest personal computer vendor</a> by unit sales, after <a href="/wiki/Lenovo" title="Lenovo">Lenovo</a> and <a href="/wiki/HP_Inc." title="HP Inc.">HP</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2015, Dell acquired the enterprise technology firm <a href="/wiki/EMC_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="EMC Corporation">EMC Corporation</a>, together becoming divisions of Dell Technologies. Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, <a href="/wiki/Virtualization" title="Virtualization">virtualization</a>, analytics, and <a href="/wiki/Cloud_computing" title="Cloud computing">cloud computing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Michael_Dell_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Michael_Dell_2010.jpg/220px-Michael_Dell_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" 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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dell_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dell&#39;s former logo, used from 1992 to 2018" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Dell_logo.svg/150px-Dell_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="48" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Dell_logo.svg/225px-Dell_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Dell_logo.svg/300px-Dell_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="127" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Dell's former logo, used from 1992 to 2018</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:152px;max-width:152px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dell_Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dell&#39;s logo, used before the acquisition of EMC, used from 2010 to 2018" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Dell_Logo.svg/150px-Dell_Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Dell_Logo.svg/225px-Dell_Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Dell_Logo.svg/300px-Dell_Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">Dell's logo used before the acquisition of EMC, used from 2010 to 2018</div></div></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founding_and_start-up">Founding and start-up</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Founding and start-up"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PC%27s_Limited_Turbo_PC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/PC%27s_Limited_Turbo_PC.jpg/242px-PC%27s_Limited_Turbo_PC.jpg" decoding="async" width="242" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/PC%27s_Limited_Turbo_PC.jpg/363px-PC%27s_Limited_Turbo_PC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/PC%27s_Limited_Turbo_PC.jpg/484px-PC%27s_Limited_Turbo_PC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4464" data-file-height="3352" /></a><figcaption>The first PC model, manufactured by Dell (known as PC's Limited at the time), the Turbo PC.</figcaption></figure> <p>Michael Dell founded Dell Computer Corporation, doing business as <i>PC's Limited</i> in 1984 while a student at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> operating from Michael Dell's off-campus dormitory room at <a href="/wiki/Dobie_Center" title="Dobie Center">Dobie Center</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The start-up aimed to sell <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible" title="IBM PC compatible">IBM PC compatible</a> computers built from stock components. Michael Dell started trading in the belief that, by selling personal computer systems directly to customers, PC's Limited could better understand customers' needs and provide the most effective computing services to meet those needs.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell dropped out of college upon completion of his freshman year at the University of Texas in order to focus full-time on his fledgling business, after getting about $1,000 in expansion-capital from his family.<sup id="cite_ref-delltimeline_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-delltimeline-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of April 2021, Dell's net worth was estimated to be over $50 billion (equivalent to $55,470,000,000&#32;in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1985, PC's Limited launched its first computer, the "Turbo PC," priced at US$795 (equivalent to $1,913&#32;in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Turbo PC featured an Intel 8088-compatible processor with a maximum speed of 8&#160;MHz.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> PC's Limited marketed these systems through national computer magazines, selling directly to consumers while custom-assembling each unit based on a range of options. This approach allowed them to offer competitive prices compared to retail brands, coupled with the convenience of pre-assembled units, making them one of the early success stories of this business model. The company grossed over $73 million in its first year of operation. The company dropped the <i>PC's Limited</i> name in 1987 to become Dell Computer Corporation and began expanding globally. The reasoning was that this new company name better reflected its presence in the business market, and also resolved issues with the use of "Limited" in a company name in certain countries.<sup id="cite_ref-ferrell198708_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ferrell198708-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The company set up its first international operations in Britain; 11 more followed within the next four years. In June 1988, Dell Computer's market capitalization grew by $30 million to $80 million (equivalent to $177,850,000&#32;in 2023) from its June 22 initial public offering of 3.5 million shares at $8.50 a share.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1989, Dell Computer set up its first on-site service programs in order to compensate for the lack of local retailers prepared to act as service centers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Growth_in_the_1990s_and_early_2000s">Growth in the 1990s and early 2000s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Growth in the 1990s and early 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dell_Latitude_CPx.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Dell_Latitude_CPx.jpg/220px-Dell_Latitude_CPx.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Dell_Latitude_CPx.jpg/330px-Dell_Latitude_CPx.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Dell_Latitude_CPx.jpg/440px-Dell_Latitude_CPx.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>Dell Latitude CPx laptop</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1990, Dell Computer tried selling its products indirectly through warehouse clubs and computer superstores, but met with little success, and the company re-focused on its more successful direct-to-consumer sales model. In 1992, <i><a href="/wiki/Fortune_(magazine)" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a></i> included Dell Computer Corporation in its list of the world's <a href="/wiki/Fortune_Global_500" title="Fortune Global 500">500</a> largest companies, making Michael Dell the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company at that time. </p><p>In 1993, to complement its own direct sales channel, Dell planned to sell PCs at big-box retail outlets such as <a href="/wiki/Wal-Mart" class="mw-redirect" title="Wal-Mart">Wal-Mart</a>, which would have brought in an additional $125 million (equivalent to $238,100,000&#32;in 2023) in annual revenue. <a href="/wiki/Bain_Capital" title="Bain Capital">Bain</a> consultant <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rollins" title="Kevin Rollins">Kevin Rollins</a> persuaded Michael Dell to pull out of these deals, believing they would be money losers in the long run.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Margins at retail were thin at best and Dell left the reseller channel in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-mhhe.com_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mhhe.com-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Rollins would soon join Dell full-time and eventually become the company president and CEO. </p><p>Originally, Dell did not emphasize the consumer market, due to the higher costs and low profit margins in selling to individuals and households; this changed when the company's Internet site took off in 1996 and 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-delltimeline_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-delltimeline-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While the industry's average selling price to individuals was going down, Dell's was going up, as second- and third-time computer buyers who wanted powerful computers with multiple features and did not need much technical support were choosing Dell. Dell found an opportunity among PC-savvy individuals who liked the convenience of buying direct, customizing their PC to their means, and having it delivered in days. In early 1997, Dell created an internal sales and marketing group dedicated to serving the home market and introduced a product line designed especially for individual users.<sup id="cite_ref-mhhe.com_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mhhe.com-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable floatright"> <caption>Dell's growth in the 1990s<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Revenue <p>($000000s) </p> </th> <th>No. of <p>employees </p> </th></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td>546 </td> <td>2,050 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td>889 </td> <td>2,970 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td>2,013 </td> <td>4,650 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993 </td> <td>2,873 </td> <td>5,980 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td>3,475 </td> <td>6,400 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td>5,296 </td> <td>8,400 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td>7,759 </td> <td>10,350 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1997 </td> <td>12,327 </td> <td>16,000 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td>18,243 </td> <td>24,400 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999 </td> <td>25,256 </td> <td>36,500 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>From 1997 to 2004, Dell steadily grew and it gained market share from competitors even during industry slumps. During the same period, rival PC vendors such as <a href="/wiki/Compaq" title="Compaq">Compaq</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gateway,_Inc." title="Gateway, Inc.">Gateway</a>, <a href="/wiki/IBM_Aptiva" title="IBM Aptiva">IBM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Packard_Bell" title="Packard Bell">Packard Bell</a>, and <a href="/wiki/AST_Research" title="AST Research">AST Research</a> struggled and eventually left the market or were bought out.<sup id="cite_ref-ZDA_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ZDA-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell surpassed Compaq to become the largest PC manufacturer in 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Operating costs made up only 10 percent of Dell's $35 billion in revenue in 2002 (equivalent to $56,680,000,000&#32;in 2023), compared with 21 percent of revenue at Hewlett-Packard, 25 percent at Gateway, and 46 percent at Cisco.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2002, when Compaq merged with Hewlett-Packard (the fourth-place PC maker), the newly combined Hewlett-Packard took the top spot for a time but struggled and Dell soon regained its lead. Dell grew the fastest in the early 2000s.<sup id="cite_ref-bw1103_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bw1103-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2002, Dell expanded its product line to include televisions, <a href="/wiki/Handhelds" class="mw-redirect" title="Handhelds">handhelds</a>, digital audio players, and <a href="/wiki/Printer_(computing)" title="Printer (computing)">printers</a>. Chairman and CEO Michael Dell had repeatedly blocked President and COO Kevin Rollins's attempt to lessen the company's heavy dependency on PCs, which Rollins wanted to fix by acquiring EMC Corporation; a move that would eventually occur over 12 years later.<sup id="cite_ref-CNNMoney-dilemma_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNNMoney-dilemma-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2003, at the annual company meeting, the stockholders approved changing the company name to "Dell Inc." to recognize the company's expansion beyond computers.<sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-May-2003-PRE-14A_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-May-2003-PRE-14A-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, the company announced that it would build a new assembly-plant near <a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina" title="Winston-Salem, North Carolina">Winston-Salem</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>; the city and county provided Dell with $37.2 million in incentive packages; the state provided approximately $250 million (equivalent to $386,600,000&#32;in 2023) in incentives and tax breaks. In July, Michael Dell stepped aside as <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">chief executive officer</a> while retaining his position as <a href="/wiki/Chair_(official)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chair (official)">chairman of the board</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-May-2004-DEF-14A_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-May-2004-DEF-14A-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kevin Rollins, who had held a number of executive posts at Dell, became the new CEO. Despite no longer holding the CEO title, Dell essentially acted as a de facto co-CEO with Rollins.<sup id="cite_ref-CNNMoney-dilemma_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNNMoney-dilemma-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Under Rollins, Dell purchased the computer hardware manufacturer <a href="/wiki/Alienware" title="Alienware">Alienware</a> in 2006. Dell Inc.'s plan anticipated Alienware continuing to operate independently under its existing management. Alienware expected to benefit from Dell's efficient manufacturing system.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Key_events">Key events</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Key events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DELL_AIXM_X51v.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/DELL_AIXM_X51v.jpg/220px-DELL_AIXM_X51v.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/DELL_AIXM_X51v.jpg/330px-DELL_AIXM_X51v.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/DELL_AIXM_X51v.jpg/440px-DELL_AIXM_X51v.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>Dell Axim X51v, shown with the Japanese Wikipedia main page open</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2005, while earnings and sales continued to rise, sales growth slowed considerably, and the company stock lost 25% of its value that year.<sup id="cite_ref-BW0206_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BW0206-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By June 2006, the stock traded around US$25 which was 40% down from July 2005—the high-water mark of the company in the post-dotcom era.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes2006_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes2006-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By June 2021, the stock had reached an all-time high of over US$100 per share, reflecting the company's successful transition to a technology service provider that helps customers navigate digital transformation.<sup id="cite_ref-Yahoo_Finance_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yahoo_Finance-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The slowing sales growth has been attributed to the maturing PC market, which constituted 66% of Dell's sales, and analysts suggested that Dell needed to make inroads into non-PC business segments such as storage, services, and servers. Dell's price advantage was tied to its ultra-lean manufacturing for desktop PCs,<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but this became less important as savings became harder to find inside the company's supply chain, and as competitors such as Hewlett-Packard and <a href="/wiki/Acer_Inc." title="Acer Inc.">Acer</a> made their PC manufacturing operations more efficient to match Dell, weakening Dell's traditional price differentiation.<sup id="cite_ref-news.cnet.com_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news.cnet.com-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Throughout the entire PC industry, declines in prices along with commensurate increases in performance meant that Dell had fewer opportunities to upsell to their customers. As a result, the company was selling a greater proportion of inexpensive PCs than before, which eroded profit margins.<sup id="cite_ref-ZDA_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ZDA-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The laptop segment had become the fastest-growing of the PC market, but Dell produced low-cost notebooks in China like other PC manufacturers which eliminated Dell's manufacturing cost advantages, plus Dell's reliance on Internet sales meant that it missed out on growing notebook sales in big box stores.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes2006_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes2006-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>CNET</i> has suggested that Dell was getting trapped in the increasing commoditization of high volume low margin computers, which prevented it from offering more exciting devices that consumers demanded.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite plans of expanding into other global regions and product segments, Dell was heavily dependent on US corporate PC market, as desktop PCs sold to both commercial and corporate customers accounted for 32 percent of its revenue, 85 percent of its revenue comes from businesses, and 64 percent of its revenue comes from North and South America, according to its 2006 third-quarter results. US shipments of desktop PCs were shrinking, and the corporate PC market, which purchases PCs in upgrade cycles, had largely decided to take a break from buying new systems. The last cycle started around 2002, three or so years after companies started buying PCs ahead of the perceived <a href="/wiki/Year_2000_problem" title="Year 2000 problem">Y2K</a> problems, and corporate clients were not expected to upgrade again until extensive testing of Microsoft's <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Windows Vista</a> (expected in early 2007), putting the next upgrade cycle around 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Heavily dependent on PCs, Dell had to slash prices to boost sales volumes, while demanding deep cuts from suppliers.<sup id="cite_ref-CNNMoney-dilemma_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNNMoney-dilemma-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell had long stuck by its direct sales model. Consumers had become the main drivers of PC sales in recent years,<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> yet there had a decline in consumers purchasing PCs through the Web or on the phone, as increasing numbers were visiting consumer electronics retail stores to try out the devices first. Dell's rivals in the PC industry, HP, Gateway and <a href="/wiki/Acer_Inc." title="Acer Inc.">Acer</a>, had a long retail presence and so were well poised to take advantage of the consumer shift.<sup id="cite_ref-director1_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-director1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The lack of a retail presence stymied Dell's attempts to offer consumer electronics such as flat-panel TVs and MP3 players.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell responded by experimenting with mall kiosks, plus quasi-retail stores in Texas and New York.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell had a reputation as a company that relied upon supply chain efficiencies to sell established technologies at low prices, instead of being an innovator.<sup id="cite_ref-CNNMoney-dilemma_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNNMoney-dilemma-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-director1_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-director1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By the mid-2000s many analysts were looking to innovating companies as the next source of growth in the technology sector. Dell's low spending on R&amp;D relative to its revenue (compared to <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">Hewlett-Packard</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple Inc.</a>)&#8212;which worked well in the commoditized PC market—prevented it from making inroads into more lucrative segments, such as MP3 players and later mobile devices.<sup id="cite_ref-BW0206_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BW0206-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Increasing spending on R&amp;D would have cut into the operating margins that the company emphasized.<sup id="cite_ref-bw1103_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bw1103-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell had done well with a horizontal organization that focused on PCs when the computing industry moved to horizontal mix-and-match layers in the 1980s, but by the mid-2000 the industry shifted to vertically integrated stacks to deliver an end-to-end IT product, and Dell lagged far behind competitors like Hewlett-Packard and Oracle.<sup id="cite_ref-news.cnet.com_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news.cnet.com-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell's reputation for poor customer service, which was exacerbated as it moved call centers offshore and as its growth outstripped its technical support infrastructure, came under increasing scrutiny on the Web. The original Dell model was known for high customer satisfaction when PCs sold for thousands of dollars but by the 2000s, the company could not justify that level of service when computers in the same line-up sold for hundreds of dollars.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Rollins responded by shifting Dick Hunter from the head of manufacturing to head of customer service. Hunter, who noted that Dell's DNA of cost-cutting "got in the way," aimed to reduce call transfer times and have call center representatives resolve inquiries in one call. By 2006, Dell had spent $100 million in just a few months to improve on this and rolled out <i>DellConnect</i> to answer customer inquiries more quickly. In July 2006, the company started its Direct2Dell blog, and then in February 2007, Michael Dell launched IdeaStorm.com, asking customers for advice including selling Linux computers and reducing the promotional "bloatware" on PCs. These initiatives did manage to cut the negative blog posts from 49% to 22%, as well as reduce the "Dell Hell" prominent on Internet search engines.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes2006_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes2006-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>There was also criticism that Dell used faulty components for its PCs, particularly the 11.8 million OptiPlex desktop computers sold to businesses and governments from May 2003 to July 2005 that suffered from <a href="/wiki/Capacitor_plague" title="Capacitor plague">faulty capacitors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A battery recall in August 2006, as a result of a Dell laptop catching fire, caused much negative attention for the company though later, <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a> was found responsible for the manufacturing of the batteries, however a Sony spokesman said the problem concerned the combination of the battery with a charger, which was specific to Dell.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>2006 marked the first year that Dell's growth was slower than the PC industry as a whole. By the fourth quarter of 2006, Dell lost its title of the largest PC manufacturer to Hewlett Packard whose Personal Systems Group was invigorated thanks to a restructuring initiated by their CEO <a href="/wiki/Mark_Hurd" title="Mark Hurd">Mark Hurd</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BW0206_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BW0206-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="SEC_investigation">SEC investigation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: SEC investigation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 2005, Dell became the subject of an informal investigation by the United States <a href="/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission">SEC</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2006, the company disclosed that the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York had subpoenaed documents related to the company's financial reporting dating back to 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The company delayed filing financial reports for the third and fourth fiscal quarter of 2006, and several class-action lawsuits were filed.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell Inc's failure to file its quarterly earnings report could have subjected the company to de-listing from the <a href="/wiki/Nasdaq" title="Nasdaq">Nasdaq</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but the exchange granted Dell a waiver, allowing the stock to trade normally.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August 2007, the company announced that it would restate its earnings for fiscal years 2003 through 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 after an internal audit found that certain employees had changed corporate account balances to meet quarterly financial targets.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In July 2010, the SEC announced charges against several senior Dell executives, including Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell, former CEO Kevin Rollins, and former CFO James Schneider, "with failing to disclose material information to investors and using fraudulent accounting to make it falsely appear that the company was consistently meeting Wall Street earnings targets and reducing its operating expenses." Dell, inc. was fined $100 million, with Michael Dell personally fined $4 million.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Michael_Dell_resumes_CEO_role">Michael Dell resumes CEO role</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Michael Dell resumes CEO role"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After four out of five quarterly earnings reports were below expectations, Rollins resigned as president and CEO on January 31, 2007, and founder Michael Dell assumed the role of CEO again.<sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-Feb-2007-8-K_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-Feb-2007-8-K-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 1, 2007, the company issued a preliminary quarterly earnings report showing gross sales of $14.4 billion, down 5% year-over-year, and net income of $687 million (30 cents per share), down 33%. Net earnings would have declined even more if not for the effects of eliminated employee bonuses, which accounted for six cents per share. NASDAQ extended the company's deadline for filing financials to May 4.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dell_2.0_and_downsizing">Dell 2.0 and downsizing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Dell 2.0 and downsizing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dell announced a change campaign called "Dell 2.0," reducing the number of employees and diversifying the company's products.<sup id="cite_ref-director1_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-director1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While chairman of the board after relinquishing his CEO position, Michael Dell still had significant input in the company during Rollins' years as CEO. With the return of Michael Dell as CEO, the company saw changes in operations, the exodus of many senior vice-presidents and new personnel brought in from outside the company.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Michael Dell announced a number of initiatives and plans (part of the "Dell 2.0" initiative) to improve the company's financial performance. These include elimination of 2006 bonuses for employees with some discretionary awards, reduction in the number of managers reporting directly to Michael Dell from 20 to 12, and reduction of "<a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy" title="Bureaucracy">bureaucracy</a>". Jim Schneider retired as CFO and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Donald_Carty" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald Carty">Donald Carty</a>, as the company came under an SEC probe for its accounting practices.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 23, 2008, Dell announced the closure of one of its biggest Canadian call-centers in <a href="/wiki/Kanata,_Ontario" title="Kanata, Ontario">Kanata, Ontario</a>, terminating approximately 1100 employees, with 500 of those redundancies effective on the spot, and with the official closure of the center scheduled for the summer. The call-center had opened in 2006 after the city of <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a> won a bid to host it. Less than a year later, Dell planned to double its workforce to nearly 3,000 workers add a new building. These plans were reversed, due to a high <a href="/wiki/Canadian_dollar" title="Canadian dollar">Canadian dollar</a> that made the Ottawa staff relatively expensive, and also as part of Dell's turnaround, which involved moving these call-center jobs offshore to cut costs. <sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The company had also announced the shutdown of its <a href="/wiki/Edmonton" title="Edmonton">Edmonton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a>, office, losing 900 jobs. In total, Dell announced the ending of about 8,800 jobs in 2007–2008&#160;— 10% of its workforce.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the late 2000s, Dell's "configure to order" approach of manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications from its US facilities was no longer as efficient or competitive with high-volume Asian contract manufacturers as PCs became powerful low-cost commodities.<sup id="cite_ref-statesman_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statesman-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-statesman1_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statesman1-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell closed plants that produced desktop computers for the North American market, including the Mort Topfer Manufacturing Center in <a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a> (original location)<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Lebanon,_Tennessee" title="Lebanon, Tennessee">Lebanon, Tennessee</a> (opened in 1999) in 2008 and early 2009, respectively. The desktop production plant in <a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina" title="Winston-Salem, North Carolina">Winston-Salem, North Carolina</a>, received <a href="/wiki/US$" class="mw-redirect" title="US$">US$</a>280 million in incentives from the state and opened in 2005 (equivalent to $419,900,000&#32;in 2023), but ceased operations in November 2010. Dell's contract with the state required them to repay the incentives for failing to meet the conditions, and they sold the North Carolina plant to Herbalife.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-theregister.co.uk_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theregister.co.uk-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bizjournals.com_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bizjournals.com-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Much work was transferred to manufacturers in Asia and Mexico, or some of Dell's own factories overseas.<sup id="cite_ref-statesman1_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statesman1-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On January 8, 2009, Dell announced the closure of its manufacturing plant in Limerick, Ireland, with the loss of 1,900 jobs and the transfer of production to its plant in <a href="/wiki/%C5%81od%C5%BA" class="mw-redirect" title="Łodź">Łodź</a> in Poland.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Attempts_at_diversification">Attempts at diversification</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Attempts at diversification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IFA_2010_Internationale_Funkausstellung_Berlin_57.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/IFA_2010_Internationale_Funkausstellung_Berlin_57.JPG/220px-IFA_2010_Internationale_Funkausstellung_Berlin_57.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/IFA_2010_Internationale_Funkausstellung_Berlin_57.JPG/330px-IFA_2010_Internationale_Funkausstellung_Berlin_57.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/IFA_2010_Internationale_Funkausstellung_Berlin_57.JPG/440px-IFA_2010_Internationale_Funkausstellung_Berlin_57.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4272" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Dell Streak smartphone</figcaption></figure> <p>The release of Apple's <a href="/wiki/IPad" title="IPad">iPad</a> <a href="/wiki/Tablet_computer" title="Tablet computer">tablet computer</a> had a negative impact on Dell and other major PC vendors, as consumers switched away from desktop and laptop PCs. Dell's own mobility division has not managed success with developing smartphones or tablets, whether running Windows or <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-beta.fool_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beta.fool-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Dell_Streak" title="Dell Streak">Dell Streak</a> was a failure commercially and critically due to its outdated OS, numerous bugs, and low resolution screen. <i>InfoWorld</i> suggested that Dell and other OEMs saw tablets as a short-term, low-investment opportunity running <a href="/wiki/Google_Android" class="mw-redirect" title="Google Android">Google Android</a>, an approach that neglected user interface and failed to gain long term market traction with consumers.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell has responded by pushing higher-end PCs, such as the XPS line of notebooks, which do not compete with the <a href="/wiki/Apple_iPad" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple iPad">Apple iPad</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kindle_Fire" class="mw-redirect" title="Kindle Fire">Kindle Fire</a> tablets.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The growing popularity of smartphones and tablet computers instead of PCs drove Dell's consumer segment to an operating loss in Q3 2012. In December 2012, Dell suffered its first decline in holiday sales in five years, despite the introduction of <a href="/wiki/Windows_8" title="Windows 8">Windows 8</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the shrinking PC industry, Dell continued to lose market share, as it dropped below <a href="/wiki/Lenovo" title="Lenovo">Lenovo</a> in 2011 to fall to number three in the world. Dell and fellow American contemporary Hewlett Packard came under pressure from Asian PC manufacturers Lenovo, <a href="/wiki/Asus" title="Asus">Asus</a>, and Acer, all of which had lower production costs and were willing to accept lower profit margins. In addition, while the Asian PC vendors had been improving their quality and design—for instance, Lenovo's <a href="/wiki/ThinkPad" title="ThinkPad">ThinkPad</a> series was winning corporate customers away from Dell's laptops—Dell's customer service and reputation had been slipping.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell remained the second-most profitable PC vendor, as it took 13 percent of operating profits in the PC industry during Q4 2012, behind Apple's Mac that took 45 percent, seven percent at Hewlett Packard, six percent at Lenovo and Asus, and one percent for Acer.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell attempted to offset its declining PC business, which still accounted for half of its revenue and generates steady cash flow,<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> by expanding into the enterprise market with servers, networking, software, and services.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It avoided many of the acquisition write-downs and management turnover that plagued its chief rival Hewlett Packard.<sup id="cite_ref-beta.fool_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beta.fool-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-chron.com_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chron.com-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Despite spending $13 billion on acquisitions to diversify its portfolio beyond hardware,<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg.com_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg.com-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the company was unable to convince the market that it could thrive or made the transformation in the post-PC world,<sup id="cite_ref-chron.com_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chron.com-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as it suffered continued declines in revenue and share price.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-economist_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-economist-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell's market share in the corporate segment was previously a "moat" against rivals but this has no longer been the case as sales and profits have fallen precipitously.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2013_buyout">2013 buyout</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: 2013 buyout"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After several weeks of rumors, which started around January 11, 2013, Dell announced on February 5, 2013, that it had struck a $24.4 billion (equivalent to $31,470,000,000&#32;in 2023) <a href="/wiki/Leveraged_buyout" title="Leveraged buyout">leveraged buyout</a> deal, that would have delisted its shares from the NASDAQ and Hong Kong Stock Exchange and taken it private.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters">Reuters</a> reported that Michael Dell and <a href="/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partners" class="mw-redirect" title="Silver Lake Partners">Silver Lake Partners</a>, aided by a $2 billion loan from <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>, would acquire the public shares at $13.65 apiece.<sup id="cite_ref-buyout_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buyout-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The $24.4 billion buyout was projected to be the largest leveraged buyout backed by private equity since the <a href="/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_financial_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2007–2008 financial crisis">2007–2008 financial crisis</a> (equivalent to $34,550,000,000&#32;in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-buyout2_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buyout2-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is also the largest technology buyout ever, surpassing the 2006 buyout of <a href="/wiki/Freescale_Semiconductor" title="Freescale Semiconductor">Freescale Semiconductor</a> for $17.5 billion (equivalent to $25,450,000,000&#32;in 2023).<sup id="cite_ref-buyout2_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buyout2-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Michael Dell said of the February offer "I believe this transaction will open an exciting new chapter for Dell, our customers and team members".<sup id="cite_ref-buyout3_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buyout3-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell rival Lenovo responded to the buyout, saying, "the financial actions of some of our traditional competitors will not substantially change our outlook."<sup id="cite_ref-buyout3_92-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buyout3-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2013, the <a href="/wiki/Blackstone_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackstone Group">Blackstone Group</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carl_Icahn" title="Carl Icahn">Carl Icahn</a> expressed interest in purchasing Dell.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In April 2013, Blackstone withdrew their offer, citing deteriorating business.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other private equity firms such as KKR &amp; Co. and TPG Capital declined to submit alternative bids for Dell, citing the uncertain market for personal computers and competitive pressures, so the "wide-open bidding war" never materialized.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg.com_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg.com-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Analysts said that the biggest challenge facing Silver Lake would be to find an "exit strategy" to profit from its investment, which would be when the company would hold an IPO to go public again, and one warned "But even if you can get a $25bn enterprise value for Dell, it will take years to get out."<sup id="cite_ref-Gelles_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gelles-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2013, Michael Dell joined his board in voting for the offer.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The following August he reached a deal with the special committee on the board for $13.88 per share, a raised price of $13.75 plus a special dividend of 13 cents, as well as a change to the voting rules.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The $13.88 cash offer (plus a $.08 per share dividend for the third fiscal quarter) was accepted on September 12<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and closed on October 30, 2013, ending Dell's 25-year run as a publicly traded company. </p><p>After the buyout, the newly private Dell offered a Voluntary Separation Program that they expected to reduce their workforce by up to seven percent. The reception to the program so exceeded the expectations that Dell may be forced to hire new staff to make up for the losses.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recent_history">Recent history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Recent history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On November 19, 2015, Dell, alongside <a href="/wiki/Arm_Holdings" title="Arm Holdings">Arm Holdings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cisco" title="Cisco">Cisco Systems</a>, <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>, founded the <a href="/wiki/OpenFog_Consortium" title="OpenFog Consortium">OpenFog Consortium</a>, to promote interests and development in <a href="/wiki/Fog_computing" title="Fog computing">fog computing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Acquisition_of_EMC">Acquisition of EMC</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Acquisition of EMC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On October 12, 2015, <a href="/wiki/Dell_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Dell Inc.">Dell Inc.</a> announced its intent to acquire EMC Corporation in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $67 billion (equivalent to $84,210,000,000&#32;in 2023), which has been considered the largest-ever acquisition in the technology sector.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc-dellemc_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-dellemc-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As part of the acquisition, Dell would take over EMC's 81% stake in the cloud-computing and virtualization company <a href="/wiki/VMware" title="VMware">VMware</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dell-EMC_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-EMC-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This would combine Dell's enterprise server, personal computer, and mobile businesses with EMC's enterprise storage business in a significant Vertical merger of IT giants. Dell would pay $24.05 per share of EMC, and $9.05 per share of <a href="/wiki/Tracking_stock" title="Tracking stock">tracking stock</a> in <a href="/wiki/VMware" title="VMware">VMware</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj-emcdell_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-emcdell-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt-emcdell_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-emcdell-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc-dellemc_103-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-dellemc-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The announcement came two years after Dell Inc. returned to private ownership, claiming that it faced bleak prospects and would need several years out of the public eye to rebuild its business.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ-20130329_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ-20130329-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was thought that the company's value had roughly doubled since then.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ-2015-10-12_108-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ-2015-10-12-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> EMC was being pressured by <a href="/wiki/Elliott_Management_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Elliott Management Corporation">Elliott Management</a>, a hedge fund holding 2.2% of EMC's stock, to reorganize their unusual "Federation" structure, in which EMC's divisions were effectively being run as independent companies. Elliott argued<sup id="cite_ref-BusinessWire-2014-10-08_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BusinessWire-2014-10-08-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> this structure deeply undervalued EMC's core "EMC II" data storage business, and that increasing competition between EMC II and VMware products was confusing the market and hindering both companies. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i> estimated that in 2014 Dell had revenue of $27.3 billion (equivalent to $34,610,000,000&#32;in 2023) from personal computers and $8.9 billion from servers, while EMC had $16.5 billion from EMC II, $1 billion from <a href="/wiki/RSA_Security" title="RSA Security">RSA Security</a>, $6 billion from VMware, and $230 million from <a href="/wiki/Pivotal_Software" title="Pivotal Software">Pivotal Software</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ-2015-10-13_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ-2015-10-13-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> EMC owns around 80 percent of the stock of VMware.<sup id="cite_ref-FT-Lex-2015-10-12_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT-Lex-2015-10-12-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The proposed acquisition will maintain VMware as a separate company, held via a new <a href="/wiki/Tracking_stock" title="Tracking stock">tracking stock</a>, while the other parts of EMC will be rolled into Dell.<sup id="cite_ref-FT-2015-10-12_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT-2015-10-12-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Once the acquisition closes Dell will again publish quarterly financial results, having ceased these on going private in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The combined business was expected to address the markets for <a href="/wiki/Converged_storage#Scale-out_architecture" title="Converged storage">scale-out architecture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Converged_infrastructure" title="Converged infrastructure">converged infrastructure</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cloud_computing#Private_cloud" title="Cloud computing">private cloud computing</a>, playing to the strengths of both EMC and Dell.<sup id="cite_ref-WSJ-2015-10-13_110-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSJ-2015-10-13-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Economist-2015-10-12_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Economist-2015-10-12-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Commentators have questioned the deal, with <a href="/wiki/FBR_Capital_Markets" title="FBR Capital Markets">FBR Capital Markets</a> saying that though it makes a "ton of sense" for Dell, it's a "nightmare scenario that would lack strategic synergies" for EMC.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters-2015-10-08_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters-2015-10-08-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>Fortune</i> said there was a lot for Dell to like in EMC's portfolio, but "does it all add up enough to justify tens of billions of dollars for the entire package? Probably not."<sup id="cite_ref-Fortune-2015-10-08_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fortune-2015-10-08-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Register" title="The Register">The Register</a></i> reported the view of <a href="/wiki/William_Blair_%26_Company" title="William Blair &amp; Company">William Blair &amp; Company</a> that the merger would "blow up the current IT chess board", forcing other IT infrastructure vendors to restructure to achieve scale and vertical integration.<sup id="cite_ref-Register-2015-10-09_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Register-2015-10-09-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The value of VMware stock fell 10% after the announcement, valuing the deal at around $63–64bn rather than the $67bn originally reported.<sup id="cite_ref-FT-Lex-Live-2015-10-13_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FT-Lex-Live-2015-10-13-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Key investors backing the deal besides Dell were Singapore's <a href="/wiki/Temasek_Holdings" class="mw-redirect" title="Temasek Holdings">Temasek Holdings</a> and <a href="/wiki/Silver_Lake_Partners" class="mw-redirect" title="Silver Lake Partners">Silver Lake Partners</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 7, 2016, Dell completed the merger with EMC, which involved the issuance of $45.9 billion (equivalent to $57,140,000,000&#32;in 2023) in debt and $4.4 billion (equivalent to $5,478,000,000&#32;in 2023) of common stock.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At the time, some analysts claimed that Dell's acquisition of the former Iomega could harm the <a href="/wiki/LenovoEMC" class="mw-redirect" title="LenovoEMC">LenovoEMC</a> partnership.<sup id="cite_ref-IomegaPart.TheRegister_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IomegaPart.TheRegister-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2018, Dell announced intentions to become a publicly traded company again by paying $21.7 billion (equivalent to $25,940,000,000&#32;in 2023) in both cash and stock to buy back shares from its stake in VMware, offering shareholders roughly 60 cents on the dollar as part of the deal.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dell-EMC_104-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-EMC-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November, Carl Icahn (9.3% owner of Dell) sued the company over plans to go public.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a result of pressure from Icahn and other <a href="/wiki/Activist_shareholder" class="mw-redirect" title="Activist shareholder">activist investors</a>, Dell renegotiated the deal, ultimately offering shareholders about 80% of market value. As part of this deal, Dell once again became a public company, with the original Dell computer business and Dell EMC operating under the newly created parent, <b>Dell Technologies</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dell-EMC_104-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-EMC-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Post-acquisition, Dell was re-organized with a new parent company, Dell Technologies; Dell's consumer and workstation businesses are internally referred to as the Dell Client Solutions Group, and is one of the company's three main business divisions alongside <a href="/wiki/Dell_EMC" title="Dell EMC">Dell EMC</a> and <a href="/wiki/VMware" title="VMware">VMware</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wsjemcdell_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsjemcdell-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2021 (equivalent to $14,420,000,000&#32;in 2023), Dell reported $94 billion (equivalent to $104,280,000,000&#32;in 2023) in sales and $13 billion operating cash flow during 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-Dell-EMC_104-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-EMC-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 1, 2024, Dell's stock hit all-time high after earnings. It delivered a strong performance from its artificial intelligence unit that sent shares up nearly 40%, its highest daily gain since the company went public in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August 2024, the company announced it would be laying off 12,500 employees—10% of its workforce—in order to invest in artificial intelligence initiatives.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dell_and_AMD">Dell and AMD</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Dell and AMD"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Dell acquired Alienware early in 2006, some Alienware systems had <a href="/wiki/AMD" title="AMD">AMD</a> chips. On August 17, 2006, a Dell press release<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> stated that starting in September, Dell Dimension desktop computers would have AMD processors and that later in the year Dell would release a two-socket, quad-processor server using AMD <a href="/wiki/Opteron" title="Opteron">Opteron</a> chips, moving away from Dell's tradition of only offering Intel processors in Dell PCs. </p><p><a href="/wiki/CNET" title="CNET">CNET</a>'s News.com on August 17, 2006, cited Dell's CEO Kevin Rollins as attributing the move to AMD processors to lower costs and to AMD technology.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> AMD's senior VP in commercial business, Marty Seyer, stated: "Dell's wider embrace of AMD processor-based offerings is a win for Dell, for the industry and most importantly for Dell customers." </p><p>On October 23, 2006, Dell announced new AMD-based servers&#160;&#8212; the PowerEdge 6950 and the <a href="/wiki/PowerEdge" title="PowerEdge">PowerEdge</a> SC1435. </p><p>On November 1, 2006, Dell's website began offering notebooks based on AMD processors (the Inspiron 1501 with a 15.4-inch (390&#160;mm) display) with the choice of a single-core MK-36 processor, dual-core Turion X2 chips or Mobile Sempron.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2017, Dell released the AlienWare 17 gaming laptop. The model was primarily based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 systems.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dell_and_desktop_Linux">Dell and desktop Linux</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Dell and desktop Linux"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1998, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Nader" title="Ralph Nader">Ralph Nader</a> asked Dell (and five other major <a href="/wiki/Original_equipment_manufacturer" title="Original equipment manufacturer">OEMs</a>) to offer alternate operating systems to <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, specifically including <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, for which "there is clearly a growing interest".<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Possibly coincidentally, Dell started offering Linux notebook systems that "cost no more than their Windows 98 counterparts" in 2000,<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and soon expanded, with Dell becoming "the first major manufacturer to offer Linux across its full product line".<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, by early 2001 Dell had "disbanded its Linux business unit."<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On February 26, 2007, Dell announced that it had commenced a program to sell and distribute a range of computers with pre-installed Linux distributions as an alternative to <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>. Dell indicated that <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a>'s <a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux" class="mw-redirect" title="SUSE Linux">SUSE</a> Linux would appear first.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the next day, Dell announced that its previous announcement related to certifying the hardware as ready to work with Novell SUSE Linux and that it (Dell) had no plans to sell systems pre-installed with Linux in the near future.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On March 28, 2007, Dell announced that it would begin shipping some desktops and laptops with Linux pre-installed, although it did not specify which distribution of Linux or which hardware would lead.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On April 18, a report appeared suggesting that Michael Dell used <a href="/wiki/Ubuntu" title="Ubuntu">Ubuntu</a> on one of his home systems.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On May 1, 2007, Dell announced it would ship the Ubuntu Linux distribution.<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On May 24, 2007, Dell started selling models with Ubuntu Linux 7.04 pre-installed: a laptop, a budget computer, and a high-end PC.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 27, 2007, Dell announced on its Direct2Dell blog that it planned to offer more pre-loaded systems (the new <a href="/wiki/Dell_Inspiron" title="Dell Inspiron">Dell Inspiron</a> desktops and laptops). After the <a href="/wiki/Dell_IdeaStorm" title="Dell IdeaStorm">IdeaStorm</a> site supported extending the bundles beyond the US market, Dell later announced more international marketing.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On August 7, 2007, Dell officially announced that it would offer one notebook and one desktop in the UK, France and Germany with Ubuntu "pre-installed". At <a href="/wiki/LinuxWorld_Conference_and_Expo" title="LinuxWorld Conference and Expo">LinuxWorld</a> 2007 Dell announced plans to provide <a href="/wiki/Novell" title="Novell">Novell</a>'s <a href="/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Desktop" class="mw-redirect" title="SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop">SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop</a> on selected models in China, "factory-installed".<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On November 30, 2007, Dell reported shipping 40,000 Ubuntu PCs.<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On January 24, 2008, Dell in Germany, Spain, France, and the United Kingdom launched a second laptop, an XPS M1330 with <a href="/wiki/Ubuntu" title="Ubuntu">Ubuntu</a> 7.10, for 849 euro or GBP 599 upwards.<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On February 18, 2008, Dell announced that the <a href="/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_1525" title="Dell Inspiron 1525">Inspiron 1525</a> would have Ubuntu as an optional operating system.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On February 22, 2008, Dell announced plans to sell Ubuntu in Canada and in <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a><sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From September 16, 2008, Dell has shipped both <a href="/wiki/Dell_Ubuntu_Netbook_Remix" class="mw-redirect" title="Dell Ubuntu Netbook Remix">Dell Ubuntu Netbook Remix</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a> Home versions of the <a href="/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_Mini_9" class="mw-redirect" title="Dell Inspiron Mini 9">Inspiron Mini 9</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_Mini_12" class="mw-redirect" title="Dell Inspiron Mini 12">Inspiron Mini 12</a>. As of November 2009<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup> Dell shipped the Inspiron Mini laptops with Ubuntu version 8.04.<sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2021, Dell continues to offer select laptops and workstations with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed, under the "Developer Edition" moniker.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Corporate_affairs">Corporate affairs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Corporate affairs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Business_trends">Business trends</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Business trends"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The key trends for Dell are (as of the financial year ending late January/early February):<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th> </th> <th>Revenue (US$ bn) </th> <th>Net profit (US$ bn) </th> <th>Employees (k)<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <td>50.5 </td> <td><span style="color:red;">−1.1</span> </td> <td>101 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2017 </td> <td>61.5 </td> <td><span style="color:red;">−3.6</span> </td> <td>138 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td>79.1 </td> <td><span style="color:red;">−2.8</span> </td> <td>145 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019 </td> <td>90.3 </td> <td><span style="color:red;">−2.3</span> </td> <td>157 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2020 </td> <td>91.9 </td> <td>4.6 </td> <td>165 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 </td> <td>86.7 </td> <td>2.2 </td> <td>158 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2022 </td> <td>101 </td> <td>4.9 </td> <td>133 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2023 </td> <td>101 </td> <td>2.4 </td> <td>133 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2024 </td> <td>88.4 </td> <td>3.2 </td> <td>120 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Senior_leadership">Senior leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: Senior leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="List_of_chairmen">List of chairmen</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: List of chairmen"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Dell" title="Michael Dell">Michael Dell</a> (1984– )</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="List_of_chief_executives">List of chief executives</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: List of chief executives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>Michael Dell (1984–2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Rollins" title="Kevin Rollins">Kevin Rollins</a> (2004–2007)</li> <li>Michael Dell (2007–present); second term</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Dell_marketing_slogans">List of Dell marketing slogans</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: List of Dell marketing slogans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Be direct</b> (1998–2001)</li> <li><b>Easy as Dell</b> (2001–2004)</li> <li><b>Get more out of now</b> (2004–2005)</li> <li><b>It's a Dell</b> (2005–2006)</li> <li><b>Dell. Purely You</b> (2006–2007)</li> <li><b>Yours is Here</b> (2007–2011)</li> <li><b>The power to do more</b> (2011–present)<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Acquisitions">Acquisitions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Acquisitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Dell_ownership_activities" title="List of Dell ownership activities">List of Dell ownership activities</a></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>List of companies acquired by Dell Inc. </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Company acquired </th> <th scope="col">Date of acquisition </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Company notes </th> <th scope="col">References </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Alienware" title="Alienware">Alienware</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002006-01-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">2006</span> </td> <td>Manufacturer of high-end PCs for gamers</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AW_159-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AW-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/EqualLogic" title="EqualLogic">EqualLogic</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002008-01-28-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">January 28, 2008</span> </td> <td>Acquired to gain a foothold in the <a href="/wiki/ISCSI" title="ISCSI">iSCSI</a> storage market. Because Dell already had an efficient manufacturing process, integrating EqualLogic's products into the company drove manufacturing prices down</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-Nov-2007-8-K_160-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-Nov-2007-8-K-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-Jan-2008-8-K_161-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-Jan-2008-8-K-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Perot_Systems" title="Perot Systems">Perot Systems</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002009-01-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">2009</span> </td> <td>Perot Systems was a technology services and outsourcing company, mainly active in the health sector, founded by former presidential hopeful <a href="/wiki/H._Ross_Perot" class="mw-redirect" title="H. Ross Perot">H. Ross Perot</a>. The acquired business provided Dell with applications development, systems integration, and strategic consulting services through its operations in the US and 10 other countries. In addition, the acquisition of Perot brought a variety of business process outsourcing services, including claims processing and call center operations.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-Sep-2009-8-K_163-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-Sep-2009-8-K-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/KACE_Networks" class="mw-redirect" title="KACE Networks">KACE Networks</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002010-02-10-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">February 10, 2010</span> </td> <td>KACE Networks was a leader in systems management appliances.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Boomi </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002010-11-02-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">November 2, 2010</span> </td> <td>Cloud integration leader</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-htanna_167-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-htanna-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Compellent_Technologies" title="Compellent Technologies">Compellent Technologies</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002011-02-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">February 2011</span> </td> <td>The acquisition extended Dell's storage portfolio.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-Mar-2011-10-K_168-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-Mar-2011-10-K-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Force10" title="Force10">Force10</a> networks </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002011-08-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">August 2011</span> </td> <td>By acquiring this company Dell now has the full <a href="/wiki/Intellectual_property" title="Intellectual property">Intellectual property</a> for their networking portfolio, which was lacking on the Dell PowerConnect range as these products are powered by <a href="/wiki/Broadcom" title="Broadcom">Broadcom</a> or <a href="/wiki/Marvell_Technology_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Marvell Technology Group">Marvell</a> IM.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-reg10_169-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reg10-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Dell_AppAssure" class="mw-redirect" title="Dell AppAssure">AppAssure</a> Software </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002012-02-24-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">February 24, 2012</span> </td> <td>Dell acquired the backup and disaster recovery software provider out of Reston, VA. AppAssure delivered 194 percent revenue growth in 2011 and over 3500% growth in the prior three years. AppAssure supported physical servers and VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer. The deal represents the first acquisition since Dell formed its software division under former CA CEO John Swainson. Dell added that it will keep AppAssure's 230 employees and invest in the company.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-May-2012-10-Q_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-May-2012-10-Q-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/SonicWall" title="SonicWall">SonicWall</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002012-05-09-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">May 9, 2012</span> </td> <td>A company with 130 patents, SonicWall develops security products, and is a network and data security provider.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Wyse" title="Wyse">Wyse</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002012-04-02-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">April 2, 2012</span> </td> <td>A global market-leader for <a href="/wiki/Thin_client" title="Thin client">thin client</a> systems.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-May-2012-10-Q_170-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-May-2012-10-Q-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Clerity Solutions </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002012-04-03-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">April 3, 2012</span> </td> <td>Clerity, a company offering services for application (re)hosting, was formed in 1994 and has it headquarters in Chicago. At the time of the take-over approximately 70 people were working for the company.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-May-2012-10-Q_170-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-May-2012-10-Q-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Quest_Software" title="Quest Software">Quest Software</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002012-09-28-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">September 28, 2012</span> </td> <td></td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-Dell-Inc-Jul-2012-8-K_175-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell-Inc-Jul-2012-8-K-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Gale_Technologies" class="mw-redirect" title="Gale Technologies">Gale Technologies</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002012-11-16-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">November 16, 2012</span> </td> <td>A provider of infrastructure automation products. Gale Technologies was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Credant_Technologies" title="Credant Technologies">Credant Technologies</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002012-12-18-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">December 18, 2012</span> </td> <td>A provider of storage protection services. Credant is the 19th acquisition in four years, as Dell had spent $13 billion on acquisitions since 2008 and $5 billion in the past year alone.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/StatSoft" title="StatSoft">StatSoft</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002014-03-24-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">March 24, 2014</span> </td> <td>A global provider of analytics software, in order to bolster its <a href="/wiki/Big_data" title="Big data">big data</a> services offering.</td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/EMC_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="EMC Corporation">EMC²</a> </th> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002015-10-12-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">October 12, 2015</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/EMC_Corporation#Products_and_services" class="mw-redirect" title="EMC Corporation">Storage, virtualization, services, cloud, data center, security and compliance</a> </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Dell_facilities">Dell facilities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Dell facilities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dell's headquarters is located in <a href="/wiki/Round_Rock,_Texas" title="Round Rock, Texas">Round Rock, Texas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 2013<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup> the company employed about 14,000 people in central Texas and was the region's largest private employer,<sup id="cite_ref-AS_187-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AS-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which has 2,100,000 square feet (200,000&#160;m<sup>2</sup>) of space.<sup id="cite_ref-GreenHQ_188-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenHQ-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of 1999 almost half of the general fund of the city of Round Rock originated from sales taxes generated from the Dell headquarters.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell previously had its headquarters in the <a href="/wiki/Arboretum" title="Arboretum">Arboretum</a> complex in northern Austin, Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-PopeDis_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopeDis-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1989 Dell occupied 127,000 square feet (11,800&#160;m<sup>2</sup>) in the Arboretum complex.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1990, Dell had 1,200 employees in its headquarters.<sup id="cite_ref-PopeDis_190-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PopeDis-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1993, Dell submitted a document to Round Rock officials, titled "Dell Computer Corporate Headquarters, Round Rock, Texas, May 1993 Schematic Design." Despite the filing, during that year the company said that it was not going to move its headquarters.<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1994, Dell announced that it was moving most of its employees out of the Arboretum, but that it was going to continue to occupy the top floor of the Arboretum and that the company's official headquarters address would continue to be the Arboretum. The top floor continued to hold Dell's board room, demonstration center, and visitor meeting room. Less than one month prior to August 29, 1994, Dell moved 1,100 customer support and telephone sales employees to Round Rock.<sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell's lease in the Arboretum had been scheduled to expire in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dell_diamond2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Dell_diamond2.jpg/250px-Dell_diamond2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Dell_diamond2.jpg/330px-Dell_diamond2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Dell_diamond2.jpg/500px-Dell_diamond2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1224" data-file-height="527" /></a><figcaption>The company sponsors <a href="/wiki/Dell_Diamond" title="Dell Diamond">Dell Diamond</a>, the home stadium of the <a href="/wiki/Round_Rock_Express" title="Round Rock Express">Round Rock Express</a>, the AAA <a href="/wiki/Minor_league_baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor league baseball">minor league baseball</a> affiliate of the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Rangers_(baseball)" title="Texas Rangers (baseball)">Texas Rangers</a> major league baseball team.</figcaption></figure> <p>By 1996, Dell was moving its headquarters to Round Rock.<sup id="cite_ref-HQMoving_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HQMoving-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As of January 1996, 3,500 people still worked at the current Dell headquarters. One building of the Round Rock headquarters, Round Rock 3, had space for 6,400 employees and was scheduled to be completed in November 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1998 Dell announced that it was going to add two buildings to its Round Rock complex, adding 1,600,000 square feet (150,000&#160;m<sup>2</sup>) of office space to the complex.<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, Dell announced that it would lease 80,000 square feet (7,400&#160;m<sup>2</sup>) of space in the <a href="/wiki/Las_Cimas" title="Las Cimas">Las Cimas</a> office complex in <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area" title="Unincorporated area">unincorporated</a> <a href="/wiki/Travis_County,_Texas" title="Travis County, Texas">Travis County, Texas</a>, between Austin and <a href="/wiki/West_Lake_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="West Lake Hills">West Lake Hills</a>, to house the company's executive offices and corporate headquarters. 100 senior executives were scheduled to work in the building by the end of 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In January 2001, the company leased the space in Las Cimas 2, located along <a href="/wiki/Loop_360" class="mw-redirect" title="Loop 360">Loop 360</a>. Las Cimas 2 housed Dell's executives, the investment operations, and some corporate functions. Dell also had an option for 138,000 square feet (12,800&#160;m<sup>2</sup>) of space in Las Cimas 3.<sup id="cite_ref-Subleaselascimas_200-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Subleaselascimas-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After a slowdown in business required reducing employees and production capacity, Dell decided to sublease its offices in two buildings in the Las Cimas office complex.<sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2002 Dell announced that it planned to sublease its space to another tenant; the company planned to move its headquarters back to Round Rock once a tenant was secured.<sup id="cite_ref-Subleaselascimas_200-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Subleaselascimas-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2003, Dell moved its headquarters back to Round Rock. It leased all of Las Cimas I and II, with a total of 312,000 square feet (29,000&#160;m<sup>2</sup>), for about a seven-year period after 2003. By that year roughly 100,000 square feet (9,300&#160;m<sup>2</sup>) of that space was absorbed by new subtenants.<sup id="cite_ref-202" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008, Dell switched the power sources of the Round Rock headquarters to more environmentally friendly ones, with 60% of the total power coming from <a href="/wiki/TXU_Energy" title="TXU Energy">TXU Energy</a> wind farms and 40% coming from the Austin Community Landfill gas-to-energy plant operated by <a href="/wiki/Waste_Management,_Inc." title="Waste Management, Inc.">Waste Management, Inc.</a><sup id="cite_ref-GreenHQ_188-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GreenHQ-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell facilities in the United States are located in Austin, Texas; <a href="/wiki/Nashua,_New_Hampshire" title="Nashua, New Hampshire">Nashua, New Hampshire</a>; <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville, Tennessee</a>; <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City</a>, Oklahoma; <a href="/wiki/Peoria,_Illinois" title="Peoria, Illinois">Peoria, Illinois</a>; <a href="/wiki/Hillsboro,_Oregon" title="Hillsboro, Oregon">Hillsboro, Oregon</a> (Portland area); <a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina" title="Winston-Salem, North Carolina">Winston-Salem, North Carolina</a>; <a href="/wiki/Eden_Prairie,_Minnesota" title="Eden Prairie, Minnesota">Eden Prairie, Minnesota</a> (<a href="/wiki/Compellent" class="mw-redirect" title="Compellent">Dell Compellent</a>); <a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green,_Kentucky" title="Bowling Green, Kentucky">Bowling Green, Kentucky</a>; <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_Nebraska" title="Lincoln, Nebraska">Lincoln, Nebraska</a>; and Miami, Florida. Facilities located abroad include <a href="/wiki/Penang,_Malaysia" class="mw-redirect" title="Penang, Malaysia">Penang, Malaysia</a>; <a href="/wiki/Xiamen" title="Xiamen">Xiamen</a>, China; <a href="/wiki/Bracknell" title="Bracknell">Bracknell</a>, UK; <a href="/wiki/Manila,_Philippines" class="mw-redirect" title="Manila, Philippines">Manila, Philippines</a><sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Chennai,_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Chennai, India">Chennai, India</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hyderabad,_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyderabad, India">Hyderabad, India</a>; <a href="/wiki/Noida,_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Noida, India">Noida, India</a>; <a href="/wiki/Hortol%C3%A2ndia" title="Hortolândia">Hortolândia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Porto_Alegre" title="Porto Alegre">Porto Alegre</a>, Brazil; <a href="/wiki/Bratislava" title="Bratislava">Bratislava</a>, Slovakia; <a href="/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA" title="Łódź">Łódź, Poland</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Panama City, <a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a>; <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Limerick" title="Limerick">Limerick</a>, Ireland; <a href="/wiki/Casablanca" title="Casablanca">Casablanca</a>, Morocco and Montpellier, France. </p><p>The US and India are the only countries that have all Dell's business functions and provide support globally: research and development, manufacturing, finance, analysis, and customer care.<sup id="cite_ref-tech.fortune.cnn.com_206-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tech.fortune.cnn.com-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell was recognized as "India's Most Desired Brand in 2023", as per TRA's Most Desired Brands report 2023. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manufacturing">Manufacturing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Manufacturing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From its early beginnings, Dell operated as a pioneer in the "configure to order" approach to manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications. In contrast, most PC manufacturers in those times delivered large orders to intermediaries on a quarterly basis.<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>To minimize the delay between purchase and delivery, Dell has a general policy of manufacturing its products close to its customers. This also allows for implementing a <a href="/wiki/Just-in-time_(business)" class="mw-redirect" title="Just-in-time (business)">just-in-time</a> (JIT) manufacturing approach, which minimizes <a href="/wiki/Inventory" title="Inventory">inventory</a> costs. Low inventory is another signature of the Dell business model—a critical consideration in an industry where components depreciate very rapidly.<sup id="cite_ref-208" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-208"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell's manufacturing process covers assembly, software installation, functional testing (including "burn-in"), and quality control. Throughout most of the company's history, Dell manufactured desktop machines in-house and contracted out the manufacturing of base notebooks for configuration in-house.<sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The company's approach has changed, as cited in the 2006 Annual Report, which states, "We are continuing to expand our use of original design manufacturing partnerships and manufacturing outsourcing relationships." <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> reported in September 2008 that "Dell has approached contract computer manufacturers with offers to sell" their plants.<sup id="cite_ref-210" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By the late 2000s, Dell's "configure to order" approach of manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications from its US facilities was no longer as efficient or competitive with high-volume Asian contract manufacturers as PCs became powerful low-cost commodities.<sup id="cite_ref-statesman1_62-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statesman1-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Assembly of desktop computers for the North American market formerly took place at Dell plants in Austin, Texas, (original location) and <a href="/wiki/Lebanon,_Tennessee" title="Lebanon, Tennessee">Lebanon, Tennessee</a>, (opened in 1999), which were closed in 2008 and early 2009, respectively. The plant in <a href="/wiki/Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina" title="Winston-Salem, North Carolina">Winston-Salem, North Carolina</a>, opened in 2005 but ceased operations in November 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-theregister.co.uk_66-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theregister.co.uk-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bizjournals.com_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bizjournals.com-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most of the work that used to take place in Dell's US plants was transferred to contract manufacturers in Asia and Mexico, or some of Dell's own factories overseas. The <a href="/wiki/Miami,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Miami, Florida">Miami, Florida</a>, facility of its Alienware subsidiary remains in operation, while Dell continues to produce its servers (its most profitable products) in Austin, Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-statesman1_62-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statesman1-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell assembled computers for the <a href="/wiki/Europe,_the_Middle_East_and_Africa" title="Europe, the Middle East and Africa">EMEA</a> market at the <a href="/wiki/Limerick" title="Limerick">Limerick</a> facility in the Republic of Ireland, and once employed about 4,500 people in that country. Dell began manufacturing in Limerick in 1991 and went on to become Ireland's largest exporter of goods and its second-largest company and foreign investor. On January 8, 2009, Dell announced that it would move all Dell manufacturing in Limerick to Dell's new plant in the Polish city of <a href="/wiki/%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA" title="Łódź">Łódź</a> by January 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> officials said they would investigate a €52.7million aid package the Polish government used to attract Dell away from Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-212" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> European Manufacturing Facility 1 (EMF1, opened in 1990) and EMF3 form part of the <a href="/wiki/Raheen_Industrial_Estate" class="mw-redirect" title="Raheen Industrial Estate">Raheen Industrial Estate</a> near Limerick. EMF2 (previously a <a href="/wiki/Wang_Laboratories" title="Wang Laboratories">Wang</a> facility, later occupied by <a href="/wiki/Flextronics" class="mw-redirect" title="Flextronics">Flextronics</a>, situated in Castletroy) closed in 2002,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2007)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> and Dell Inc. has consolidated production into EMF3 (EMF1 now<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (January 2010)">when?</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> contains only offices).<sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Subsidies from the Polish government did keep Dell for a long time.<sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After ending assembly in the Limerick plant the <a href="/wiki/Cherrywood,_Dublin" title="Cherrywood, Dublin">Cherrywood</a> Technology Campus in Dublin was the largest Dell office in the republic with over 1200 people in sales (mainly UK &amp; Ireland), support (enterprise support for EMEA) and research and development for cloud computing, but no more manufacturing except<sup id="cite_ref-ida_215-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ida-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell's Alienware subsidiary, which manufactures PCs in an Athlone, Ireland, plant. Whether this facility will remain in Ireland is not certain.<sup id="cite_ref-216" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell started production at EMF4 in Łódź, Poland, in late 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell moved desktop, notebook and PowerEdge server manufacturing for the South American market from the <a href="/wiki/Eldorado_do_Sul,_Brazil" class="mw-redirect" title="Eldorado do Sul, Brazil">Eldorado do Sul</a> plant opened in 1999, to a new plant in <a href="/wiki/Hortol%C3%A2ndia" title="Hortolândia">Hortolândia, Brazil</a>, in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Products">Products</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Products"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Scope_and_brands">Scope and brands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Scope and brands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dell_wiki.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Dell_wiki.JPG/220px-Dell_wiki.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Dell_wiki.JPG/330px-Dell_wiki.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Dell_wiki.JPG/440px-Dell_wiki.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Dell's tagline "Yours is Here", as seen at their <a href="/wiki/SM_Mall_of_Asia" title="SM Mall of Asia">Mall of Asia</a> branch in <a href="/wiki/Pasay" title="Pasay">Pasay</a>, Philippines</figcaption></figure> <p>The corporation markets specific brand names to different <a href="/wiki/Market_segment" class="mw-redirect" title="Market segment">market segments</a>. </p><p>Its Business/Corporate class includes: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dell_OptiPlex" title="Dell OptiPlex">OptiPlex</a> (office <a href="/wiki/Desktop_computer" title="Desktop computer">desktop computer</a> systems)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_Dimension" title="Dell Dimension">Dimension</a> (home desktop computer systems)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_Vostro" title="Dell Vostro">Vostro</a> (office/small business desktop and <a href="/wiki/Laptop" title="Laptop">notebook</a> systems)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_n_Series" title="Dell n Series">n Series</a> (desktop and notebook computers shipped with <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> or <a href="/wiki/FreeDOS" title="FreeDOS">FreeDOS</a> installed)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_Latitude" title="Dell Latitude">Latitude</a> (business-focused notebooks)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_Precision" title="Dell Precision">Precision</a> (<a href="/wiki/Computer_workstation" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer workstation">workstation</a> systems and high-performance "Mobile Workstation" notebooks),<sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_PowerEdge" class="mw-redirect" title="Dell PowerEdge">PowerEdge</a> (business servers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_PowerVault" title="Dell PowerVault">PowerVault</a> (direct-attach and <a href="/wiki/Network-attached_storage" title="Network-attached storage">network-attached storage</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Force10" title="Force10">Force10</a> (<a href="/wiki/Network_switch" title="Network switch">network switches</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_PowerConnect" title="Dell PowerConnect">PowerConnect</a> (<a href="/wiki/Network_switch" title="Network switch">network switches</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_Compellent" class="mw-redirect" title="Dell Compellent">Dell Compellent</a> (<a href="/wiki/Storage_area_network" title="Storage area network">storage area networks</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/EqualLogic" title="EqualLogic">EqualLogic</a> (enterprise class <a href="/wiki/ISCSI" title="ISCSI">iSCSI</a> <a href="/wiki/Storage_area_network" title="Storage area network">SANs</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123095422/http://content.dell.com/us/en/healthcare/healthcare-electronic-medical-records.aspx">Dell EMR</a> (electronic medical records)</li></ul> <p>Dell's Home Office/Consumer class includes: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dell_Inspiron" title="Dell Inspiron">Inspiron</a> (medium-range desktop and notebook computers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_XPS" title="Dell XPS">XPS</a> (high-end desktop and notebook computers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_G_Series" title="Dell G Series">G Series</a> (high/medium-performance gaming laptops)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alienware" title="Alienware">Alienware</a> (high-performance gaming systems)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_Venue" title="Dell Venue">Venue</a> (Tablets Android / Windows)</li></ul> <p>Dell's Peripherals class includes <a href="/wiki/Keydrive" class="mw-redirect" title="Keydrive">USB keydrives</a>, <a href="/wiki/LCD_television" title="LCD television">LCD televisions</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Printer_(computing)" title="Printer (computing)">printers</a>; Dell monitors includes <a href="/wiki/LCD" class="mw-redirect" title="LCD">LCD TVs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Plasma_display" title="Plasma display">plasma TVs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Video_projector" title="Video projector">projectors</a> for <a href="/wiki/HDTV" class="mw-redirect" title="HDTV">HDTV</a> and <a href="/wiki/Computer_display" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer display">monitors</a>. Dell UltraSharp is further a high-end brand of monitors. </p><p>Dell service and support brands include the <i>Dell Solution Station</i> (extended domestic support services, previously "Dell on Call"), <i><a href="/wiki/Dell_Support_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Dell Support Center">Dell Support Center</a></i> (extended support services abroad), <i>Dell Business Support</i> (a commercial service-contract that provides an industry-certified technician with a lower call-volume than in normal queues), <i>Dell Everdream Desktop Management</i> ("<a href="/wiki/Software_as_a_service" title="Software as a service">Software as a service</a>" <a href="/wiki/Remote-desktop_management" class="mw-redirect" title="Remote-desktop management">remote-desktop management</a>, originally a SaaS company founded by <a href="/wiki/Elon_Musk" title="Elon Musk">Elon Musk</a>'s cousin, <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Rive" title="Lyndon Rive">Lyndon Rive</a>, which Dell bought in 2007<sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>), and <i>Your Tech Team</i> (a support-queue available to home users who purchased their systems either through Dell's website or through Dell phone-centers). </p><p>Discontinued products and brands include <a href="/wiki/Dell_Axim" title="Dell Axim">Axim</a> (<a href="/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant" title="Personal digital assistant">PDA</a>; discontinued April 9, 2007),<sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Dell_Dimension" title="Dell Dimension">Dimension</a> (home and small office desktop computers; discontinued July 2007), <a href="/wiki/Dell_Digital_Jukebox" title="Dell Digital Jukebox">Dell Digital Jukebox</a> (MP3 player; discontinued August 2006), Dell PowerApp (application-based servers), Dell Optiplex (desktop and tower computers previously supported to run server and desktop operating systems), Dell Unix (an <a href="/wiki/UNIX_System_V" title="UNIX System V">SVR4</a>-based Unix operating system for its Dell-branded PCs and workstations; discontinued in 1993) and Dell Mobile Connect(Windows Mobile application; discontinued July 31, 2022).<sup id="cite_ref-222" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Security">Security</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: Security"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Self-signed_root_certificate">Self-signed root certificate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: Self-signed root certificate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In November 2015, it emerged that several Dell computers had shipped with an identical pre-installed <a href="/wiki/Root_certificate" title="Root certificate">root certificate</a> known as "eDellRoot".<sup id="cite_ref-ars-selfsigned_223-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ars-selfsigned-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This raised such security risks as attackers impersonating <a href="/wiki/HTTPS" title="HTTPS">HTTPS</a>-protected websites such as <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_America" title="Bank of America">Bank of America</a> and malware being signed with the certificate to bypass Microsoft software filtering.<sup id="cite_ref-ars-selfsigned_223-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ars-selfsigned-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell apologized and offered a removal tool.<sup id="cite_ref-ars-removal_224-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ars-removal-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dell_Foundation_Services">Dell Foundation Services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=27" title="Edit section: Dell Foundation Services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Also in November 2015, a researcher discovered that customers with diagnostic program Dell Foundation Services could be digitally tracked using the unique service tag number assigned to them by the program.<sup id="cite_ref-ars-dfs_225-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ars-dfs-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This was possible even if a customer enabled <a href="/wiki/Private_browsing" title="Private browsing">private browsing</a> and deleted their <a href="/wiki/Browser_cookie" class="mw-redirect" title="Browser cookie">browser cookies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ars-dfs_225-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ars-dfs-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Ars_Technica" title="Ars Technica">Ars Technica</a></i> recommended that Dell customers uninstall the program until the issue was addressed.<sup id="cite_ref-ars-dfs_225-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ars-dfs-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commercial_aspects">Commercial aspects</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=28" title="Edit section: Commercial aspects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Organization">Organization</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=29" title="Edit section: Organization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The board consists of nine directors. Michael Dell, the founder of the company, serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Other board members include <a href="/wiki/Donald_J._Carty" title="Donald J. Carty">Don Carty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judy_Lewent" title="Judy Lewent">Judy Lewent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Klaus_Luft" title="Klaus Luft">Klaus Luft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alex_J._Mandl" title="Alex J. Mandl">Alex Mandl</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sam_Nunn" title="Sam Nunn">Sam Nunn</a>. <a href="/wiki/Shareholder" title="Shareholder">Shareholders</a> elect the nine board members at meetings, and those board members who do not get a majority of votes must submit a resignation to the board, which will subsequently choose whether or not to accept the resignation. The board of directors usually sets up five committees having oversight over specific matters. These committees include the Audit Committee, which handles accounting issues, including auditing and reporting; the Compensation Committee, which approves compensation for the CEO and other employees of the company; the Finance Committee, which handles financial matters such as proposed mergers and acquisitions; the Governance and Nominating Committee, which handles various corporate matters (including the nomination of the board); and the Antitrust Compliance Committee, which attempts to prevent company practices from violating <a href="/wiki/Antitrust" class="mw-redirect" title="Antitrust">antitrust</a> laws. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>Day-to-day operations of the company are run by the Global Executive Management Committee, which sets <a href="/wiki/Strategic_management" title="Strategic management">strategic direction</a>. Dell has regional senior vice-presidents for countries other than the United States.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2013)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marketing">Marketing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=30" title="Edit section: Marketing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dell advertisements have appeared in several types of media including television, the Internet, magazines, <a href="/wiki/Mail-order_catalog" class="mw-redirect" title="Mail-order catalog">catalogs</a>, and newspapers. Some of Dell Inc's marketing strategies include lowering prices at all times of the year, free bonus products (such as Dell printers), and free shipping to encourage more sales and stave off competitors. In 2006, Dell cut its prices in an effort to maintain its 19.2% market share. This also cut profit margins by more than half, from 8.7 to 4.3 percent. To maintain its low prices, Dell continues to accept most purchases of its products via the Internet and through the telephone network, and to move its customer-care division to India and <a href="/wiki/El_Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A popular United States television and print ad campaign in the early 2000s featured the actor <a href="/wiki/Ben_Curtis_(actor)" title="Ben Curtis (actor)">Ben Curtis</a> playing the part of "Steven", a lightly mischievous blond-haired youth who came to the assistance of bereft computer purchasers. Each television advertisement usually ended with Steven's catch-phrase: "Dude, you're gettin' a Dell!"<sup id="cite_ref-SlateDell_227-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SlateDell-227"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A subsequent advertising campaign featured <a href="/wiki/Intern" class="mw-redirect" title="Intern">interns</a> at Dell headquarters (with Curtis' character appearing in a small cameo at the end of one of the first commercials in this particular campaign). </p><p>In 2007, Dell switched advertising agencies in the US from <a href="/wiki/BBDO" title="BBDO">BBDO</a> to <a href="/wiki/Working_Mother" title="Working Mother">Working Mother</a> Media. In July 2007, Dell released new advertising created by Working Mother to support the Inspiron and XPS lines. The ads featured music from the <a href="/wiki/The_Flaming_Lips" title="The Flaming Lips">Flaming Lips</a> and <a href="/wiki/Devo" title="Devo">Devo</a> who re-formed especially to record the song in the ad "Work it Out". Also in 2007, Dell began using the slogan "Yours is here" to say that it customizes computers to fit customers' requirements.<sup id="cite_ref-engadget_228-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-engadget-228"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning in 2011, Dell began hosting a conference in Austin, Texas, at the Austin Convention Center titled "Dell World". The event featured new technology and services provided by Dell and Dell's partners. In 2011, the event was held October 12–14.<sup id="cite_ref-229" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-229"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2012, the event was held December 11–13.<sup id="cite_ref-230" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2013, the event was held December 11–13.<sup id="cite_ref-231" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-231"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2014, the event was held November 4–6.<sup id="cite_ref-232" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-232"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Dell_partner_program">Dell partner program</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=31" title="Edit section: Dell partner program"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In late 2007, Dell Inc. announced that it planned to expand its program to <a href="/wiki/Value-added_reseller" title="Value-added reseller">value-added resellers</a> (VARs), giving it the official name of "Dell Partner Direct" and a new Website.<sup id="cite_ref-233" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-233"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell India has started Online Ecommerce website<sup id="cite_ref-234" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-234"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with its Dell Partner www.compuindia.com GNG Electronics Pvt Ltd<sup id="cite_ref-235" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-235"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> termed as Dell Express Ship Affiliate(DESA). The main objective was to reduce the delivery time. Customers who visit Dell India official site are given the option to buy online which then will be redirected to Dell affiliate website compuindia.com.<sup id="cite_ref-tech.fortune.cnn.com_206-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tech.fortune.cnn.com-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Global_analytics">Global analytics</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=32" title="Edit section: Global analytics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dell also operates a captive analytics division which supports pricing, web analytics, and supply chain operations. DGA operates as a single, centralized entity with a global view of Dell's business activities. The firm supports over 500 internal customers worldwide and has created a quantified impact of over $500 million.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup><sup id="cite_ref-236" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Criticisms_of_marketing_of_laptop_security">Criticisms of marketing of laptop security</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=33" title="Edit section: Criticisms of marketing of laptop security"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2008, Dell received press coverage over its claim of having the world's most secure laptops, specifically, its Latitude D630 and Latitude D830.<sup id="cite_ref-237" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At Lenovo's request, the (US) National Advertising Division (NAD) evaluated the claim, and reported that Dell did not have enough evidence to support it.<sup id="cite_ref-238" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Retail">Retail</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=34" title="Edit section: Retail"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dell first opened their retail stores in India.<sup id="cite_ref-tech.fortune.cnn.com_206-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tech.fortune.cnn.com-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="United_States">United States</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=35" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early 1990s, Dell sold its products through <a href="/wiki/Best_Buy" title="Best Buy">Best Buy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Costco" title="Costco">Costco</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sam%27s_Club" title="Sam&#39;s Club">Sam's Club</a> stores in the United States. Dell stopped this practice in 1994, citing low profit margins on the business, exclusively distributing through a direct-sales model for the next decade. In 2003, Dell briefly sold products in <a href="/wiki/Sears" title="Sears">Sears</a> stores in the US. In 2007, Dell started shipping its products to major retailers in the US once again, starting with <a href="/wiki/Sam%27s_Club" title="Sam&#39;s Club">Sam's Club</a> and <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Wal-Mart</a>. <a href="/wiki/Staples_Inc." title="Staples Inc.">Staples</a>, the largest office-supply retailer in the US, and Best Buy, the largest electronics retailer in the US, became Dell retail partners later that same year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Kiosks">Kiosks</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=36" title="Edit section: Kiosks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Starting in 2002, Dell opened <a href="/wiki/Kiosk" title="Kiosk">kiosk</a> locations in the United States to allow customers to examine products before buying them directly from the company. Starting in 2005, Dell expanded <a href="/wiki/Kiosk" title="Kiosk">kiosk</a> locations to include shopping malls across Australia, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong. On January 30, 2008, Dell announced it would shut down all 140 kiosks in the US due to expansion into retail stores.<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By June 3, 2010, Dell had also shut down all of its mall kiosks in Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-240" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Retail_stores">Retail stores</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=37" title="Edit section: Retail stores"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the end of February 2008<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, Dell products shipped to one of the largest office supply retailers in Canada, <a href="/wiki/Staples_Business_Depot" class="mw-redirect" title="Staples Business Depot">Staples Business Depot</a>. In April 2008, <a href="/wiki/Future_Shop" title="Future Shop">Future Shop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Best_Buy" title="Best Buy">Best Buy</a> began carrying a subset of Dell products, such as certain desktops, laptops, printers, and monitors. </p><p>Since some shoppers in certain markets show reluctance to purchase technological products through the phone or the Internet, Dell has looked into opening retail operations in some countries in Central Europe and Russia. In April 2007, Dell opened a retail store in <a href="/wiki/Budapest" title="Budapest">Budapest</a>. In October of the same year, Dell opened a retail store in Moscow. </p><p>In the UK, <a href="/wiki/HMV" title="HMV">HMV</a>'s flagship <a href="/wiki/Trocadero_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="Trocadero (London)">Trocadero</a> store has sold Dell XPS PCs since December 2007. From January 2008 the UK stores of <a href="/wiki/DSG_International_(retailer)" class="mw-redirect" title="DSG International (retailer)">DSGi</a> have sold Dell products (in particular, through <a href="/wiki/Currys" title="Currys">Currys</a> and <a href="/wiki/PC_World_(retailer)" title="PC World (retailer)">PC World</a> stores). As of 2008, the large supermarket chain <a href="/wiki/Tesco" title="Tesco">Tesco</a> has sold Dell laptops and desktops in outlets throughout the UK. </p><p>In May 2008, Dell reached an agreement with the office supply chain, <a href="/wiki/Officeworks" title="Officeworks">Officeworks</a> (part of <a href="/wiki/Coles_Group" title="Coles Group">Coles Group</a>), to stock a few modified models in the Inspiron desktop and notebook range. These models have slightly different model numbers, but almost replicate the ones available from the Dell Store. Dell continued its retail push in the Australian market with its partnership with Harris Technology (another part of Coles Group) in November of the same year. In addition, Dell expanded its retail distributions in Australia through an agreement with the discount electrical retailer, <a href="/wiki/The_Good_Guys_(Australasia)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Good Guys (Australasia)">The Good Guys</a>, known for "Slashing Prices". Dell agreed to distribute a variety of makes of both desktops and notebooks, including <a href="/wiki/Studio" title="Studio">Studio</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dell_XPS" title="Dell XPS">XPS</a> systems in late 2008. Dell and <a href="/wiki/Dick_Smith_Electronics" class="mw-redirect" title="Dick Smith Electronics">Dick Smith Electronics</a> (owned by <a href="/wiki/Woolworths_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Woolworths Limited">Woolworths Limited</a>) reached an agreement to expand within Dick Smith's 400 stores throughout Australia and New Zealand in May 2009 (1 year since Officeworks—owned by Coles Group—reached a deal). The retailer has agreed to distribute a variety of <a href="/wiki/Inspiron" class="mw-redirect" title="Inspiron">Inspiron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Studio" title="Studio">Studio</a> notebooks, with minimal Studio desktops from the Dell range. As of 2009<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, Dell continues to run and operate its various kiosks in 18 shopping centers throughout Australia. On March 31, 2010, Dell announced to Australian Kiosk employees that they were shutting down the Australian/New Zealand Dell kiosk program. </p><p>In Germany, Dell is selling selected smartphones and notebooks via <a href="/wiki/Media_Markt" class="mw-redirect" title="Media Markt">Media Markt</a> and Saturn, as well as some shopping websites.<sup id="cite_ref-241" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Competition">Competition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=38" title="Edit section: Competition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dell's major competitors include <a href="/wiki/Lenovo" title="Lenovo">Lenovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">Hewlett-Packard</a> (HP), <a href="/wiki/Hasee" title="Hasee">Hasee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Acer_Inc." title="Acer Inc.">Acer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fujitsu" title="Fujitsu">Fujitsu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toshiba" title="Toshiba">Toshiba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gateway,_Inc." title="Gateway, Inc.">Gateway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asus" title="Asus">Asus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Micro-Star_International" title="Micro-Star International">MSI</a>, <a href="/wiki/Panasonic" title="Panasonic">Panasonic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samsung" title="Samsung">Samsung</a> and <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a>. Dell and its subsidiary, Alienware, compete in the enthusiast market against AVADirect, <a href="/wiki/Falcon_Northwest" title="Falcon Northwest">Falcon Northwest</a>, <a href="/wiki/VoodooPC" title="VoodooPC">VoodooPC</a> (a subsidiary of HP), and other manufacturers. In the second quarter of 2006, Dell had between 18% and 19% share of the worldwide personal computer market, compared to HP with roughly 15%. </p><p>In late 2006<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, Dell lost its lead in the PC business to Hewlett-Packard. Both <a href="/wiki/Gartner" title="Gartner">Gartner</a> and <a href="/wiki/International_Data_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="International Data Corporation">IDC</a> estimated that in the third quarter of 2006, HP shipped more units<sup id="cite_ref-242" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> worldwide than Dell did. Dell's 3.6% growth paled in comparison to HP's 15% growth during the same period. The problem got worse in the fourth quarter, when Gartner estimated<sup id="cite_ref-243" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> that Dell PC shipments declined 8.9% (versus HP's 23.9% growth). As a result, at the end of 2006 Dell's overall PC market share stood at 13.9% (versus HP's 17.4%). </p><p>IDC reported that Dell lost more server market share than any of the top four competitors in that arena. IDC's Q4 2006 estimates show Dell's share of the server market at 8.1%, down from 9.5% in the previous year. This represents an 8.8% loss year-over-year, primarily to competitors EMC and IBM. As of 2021, Dell is the third-largest PC manufacturer after Lenovo and HP.<sup id="cite_ref-244" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Partnership_with_EMC">Partnership with EMC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=39" title="Edit section: Partnership with EMC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2001, Dell and EMC entered into a partnership whereby both companies jointly design products, and Dell provided support for certain EMC products including midrange storage systems, such as <a href="/wiki/Fibre_channel" class="mw-redirect" title="Fibre channel">fibre channel</a> and <a href="/wiki/ISCSI" title="ISCSI">iSCSI</a> <a href="/wiki/Storage_area_network" title="Storage area network">storage area networks</a>. The relationship also promotes and sells OEM versions of backup, recovery, replication and archiving software.<sup id="cite_ref-245" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On December 9, 2008, Dell and EMC announced the multi-year extension, through 2013, of the strategic partnership with EMC. In addition, Dell expanded its product lineup by adding the EMC Celerra NX4 storage system to the portfolio of Dell/EMC family of networked storage systems and partnered on a new line of <a href="/wiki/Data_deduplication" title="Data deduplication">data deduplication</a> products as part of its TierDisk family of <a href="/wiki/Data_storage_device" class="mw-redirect" title="Data storage device">data storage devices</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-246" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 17, 2011, Dell discontinued reselling all EMC storage products, ending the partnership 2 years early.<sup id="cite_ref-247" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-247"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-248" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later Dell would acquire and merge with EMC in the largest tech merger to date. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Environmental_record">Environmental record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=40" title="Edit section: Environmental record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dell committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its global activities by 40% by 2015, with the 2008 fiscal year as the baseline year.<sup id="cite_ref-249" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-249"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is listed in <a href="/wiki/Greenpeace" title="Greenpeace">Greenpeace</a>'s Guide to Greener Electronics that scores leading electronics manufacturers according to their policies on sustainability, <a href="/wiki/Climate_and_energy" title="Climate and energy">climate and energy</a> and how green their products are. In November 2011, Dell ranked 2nd out of 15 listed electronics makers (increasing its score to 5.1 from 4.9, which it gained in the previous ranking from October 2010).<sup id="cite_ref-250" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-250"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dell was the first company to publicly state a timeline for the elimination of toxic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs), which it planned to phase out by the end of 2009. It revised this commitment and now aims to remove toxics by the end of 2011 but only in its computing products.<sup id="cite_ref-251" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In March 2010, Greenpeace activists protested at Dell offices in Bangalore, Amsterdam and Copenhagen calling for Dell's founder and CEO Michael Dell to "drop the toxics" and claiming that Dell's aspiration to be 'the greenest technology company on the planet'<sup id="cite_ref-252" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-252"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was "hypocritical".<sup id="cite_ref-253" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dell has launched its first products completely free of PVC and BFRs with the G-Series monitors (G2210 and G2410) in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-254" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In its 2012 report on progress relating to <a href="/wiki/Conflict_minerals" class="mw-redirect" title="Conflict minerals">conflict minerals</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Enough_Project" title="Enough Project">Enough Project</a> rated Dell the eighth-highest of 24 consumer electronics companies.<sup id="cite_ref-EnoughProject2012_255-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EnoughProject2012-255"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Green_initiatives">Green initiatives</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=41" title="Edit section: Green initiatives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dell became the first company in the <a href="/wiki/Information_technology_industry" class="mw-redirect" title="Information technology industry">information technology industry</a> to establish a product-<a href="/wiki/Recycling" title="Recycling">recycling</a> goal (in 2004) and completed the implementation of its global consumer recycling-program in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-256" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-256"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On February 6, 2007, the National Recycling Coalition awarded Dell its "Recycling Works" award for efforts to promote producer responsibility.<sup id="cite_ref-National_Recycling_Coalition_257-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-National_Recycling_Coalition-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On July 19, 2007, Dell announced that it had exceeded targets in working to achieve a multi-year goal of recovering 275 million pounds of computer equipment by 2009. The company reported the recovery of 78 million pounds (nearly 40,000 tons) of IT equipment from customers in 2006, a 93-percent increase over 2005; and 12.4% of the equipment Dell sold seven years earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-Dell_Inc._258-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dell_Inc.-258"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 5, 2007, Dell set a goal of becoming the greenest technology company on Earth for the long term.<sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The company launched a <a href="/wiki/Zero-carbon" class="mw-redirect" title="Zero-carbon">zero-carbon</a> initiative that includes: </p> <ol><li>reducing Dell's <a href="/wiki/Carbon_intensity" class="mw-redirect" title="Carbon intensity">carbon intensity</a> by 15 percent by 2012</li> <li>requiring primary suppliers to report carbon emissions data during quarterly business reviews</li> <li>partnering with customers to build the "greenest PC on the planet"</li> <li>expanding the company's carbon-offsetting program, "Plant a Tree for Me"</li></ol> <p>Dell reports its environmental performance in an annual <a href="/wiki/Corporate_Social_Responsibility" class="mw-redirect" title="Corporate Social Responsibility">Corporate Social Responsibility</a> (CSR) Report that follows the <a href="/wiki/Global_Reporting_Initiative" title="Global Reporting Initiative">Global Reporting Initiative</a> (GRI) protocol. Dell's 2008 CSR report ranked as "Application Level B" as "checked by GRI".<sup id="cite_ref-260" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company aims to reduce its external environmental impact through an energy-efficient evolution of products, and also reduce its direct operational impact through energy-efficiency programs.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=42" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Lawsuits_involving_Dell_Inc." title="Lawsuits involving Dell Inc.">Lawsuits involving Dell Inc.</a></div> <p>In the 1990s, Dell switched from using primarily <a href="/wiki/ATX" title="ATX">ATX</a> <a href="/wiki/Motherboard" title="Motherboard">motherboards</a> and <a href="/wiki/Computer_power_supply" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer power supply">PSU</a> to using boards and power supplies with mechanically identical but differently wired connectors. This meant customers wishing to upgrade their hardware would have to replace parts with scarce Dell-compatible parts instead of commonly available parts. While motherboard power connections reverted to the industry standard in 2003, Dell remains secretive about their motherboard pin-outs for peripherals (such as MMC readers and power on/off switches and LEDs).<sup id="cite_ref-261" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-262" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-262"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2005, complaints about Dell more than doubled to 1,533, after earnings grew 52% that year.<sup id="cite_ref-263" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2006, Dell acknowledged that it had problems with customer service. Issues included call transfers<sup id="cite_ref-264" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> of more than 45% of calls and long wait times. Dell's <a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">blog</a> detailed the response: "We're spending more than a $100&#160;million—and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears of talented people—to fix this."<sup id="cite_ref-265" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-265"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later in the year, the company increased its spending on customer service to $150&#160;million.<sup id="cite_ref-266" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Since 2018, Dell has seen significant increase in consumer satisfaction. Moreover, their customer service has been praised for its prompt and accurate answers to most questions, especially those directed to their social media support.<sup id="cite_ref-267" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-267"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>267<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On August 17, 2007, Dell Inc. announced that after an internal investigation into its accounting practices it would restate and reduce earnings from 2003 through to the first quarter of 2007 by a total amount of between $50&#160;million and $150&#160;million, or 2 cents to 7 cents per share.<sup id="cite_ref-269" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-269"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The investigation, begun in November 2006, resulted from concerns raised by the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</a> over some documents and information that Dell Inc. had submitted.<sup id="cite_ref-270" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was alleged that Dell had not disclosed large exclusivity payments received from <a href="/wiki/Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a> for agreeing not to buy processors from rival manufacturer <a href="/wiki/AMD" title="AMD">AMD</a>. In 2010 Dell finally paid $100&#160;million (equivalent to $136,400,000&#32;in 2023) to settle the SEC's charges of fraud. Michael Dell and other executives also paid penalties and suffered other sanctions, without admitting or denying the charges.<sup id="cite_ref-271" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-271"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2009, Dell apologized after drawing the ire of the Taiwanese Consumer Protection Commission for twice refusing to honor a flood of orders against unusually low prices offered on its Taiwanese website. In the first instance, Dell offered a 19" LCD panel for $15. In the second instance, Dell offered its Latitude E4300 notebook at NT$18,558 (US$580), 70% lower than the usual price of NT$60,900 (US$1900). Concerning the E4300, rather than honor the discount taking a significant loss, the firm withdrew orders and offered a voucher of up to NT$20,000 (US$625) a customer in compensation. The consumer rights authorities in Taiwan fined Dell NT$1&#160;million (US$31250) for customer rights infringements. Many consumers sued the firm for unfair compensation. A court in southern Taiwan ordered the firm to deliver 18 laptops and 76 flat-panel monitors to 31 consumers for NT$490,000 (US$15,120), less than a third of the normal price.<sup id="cite_ref-272" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The court said the event could hardly be regarded as mistakes, as the prestigious firm said the company mispriced its products twice on its Taiwanese website within 3 weeks.<sup id="cite_ref-273" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-273"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>273<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Michael Dell made a $24.4 billion buyout bid in August 2013 (equivalent to $31,470,000,000&#32;in 2023), activist shareholder <a href="/wiki/Carl_Icahn" title="Carl Icahn">Carl Icahn</a> sued the company and its board in an attempt to derail the bid and promote his own forthcoming offer.<sup id="cite_ref-274" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-274"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>274<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_Strategic_Policy_Institute" title="Australian Strategic Policy Institute">Australian Strategic Policy Institute</a> accused at least 82 major brands, including Dell, of being connected to forced <a href="/wiki/Uyghurs" title="Uyghurs">Uyghur</a> labor in <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-275" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>275<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dell&amp;action=edit&amp;section=43" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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"Dell's Midlife Crisis". <i><a href="/wiki/Fortune_(magazine)" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a></i>. pp.&#160;<span class="nowrap">63–</span>66.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Fortune&amp;rft.atitle=Dell%27s+Midlife+Crisis&amp;rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E63-%3C%2Fspan%3E66&amp;rft.date=2005-11-28&amp;rft.aulast=Serwer&amp;rft.aufirst=Andy&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADell" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/industries/industry_114.html">Dell as the seventh-most-admired computer company in the USA</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/">eighth overall</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/globalmostadmired/top50/">and seventh worldwide</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Fortune_(magazine)" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a></i>, <i>Most Admired Companies 2006</i>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a></i>, August 21, 2003, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3169407.stm"><i>Dell makes grab for market share</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/USA_Today" title="USA Today">USA Today</a></i>, January 20, 2001, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2003-01-19-Dell-cover_x.htm"><i>Dell business model turns to muscle as rivals struggle</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ubuntu_Forums" title="Ubuntu Forums">Ubuntu Forums</a></i>, June 7, 2007, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091007032518/http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=465723&amp;highlight=dellbuntu"><i>Dell's with Ubuntu called Dellbuntu</i></a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Archive_War" title="Texas Archive War">Texas Archive War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Austin,_Texas" title="Timeline of Austin, Texas">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_Oak_(Austin,_Texas)" title="Treaty Oak (Austin, Texas)">Treaty Oak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterloo,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Waterloo, Texas">Waterloo, Texas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tertiary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Community_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin Community College">Austin 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href="/wiki/Del_Valle_Independent_School_District" title="Del Valle Independent School District">Del Valle ISD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eanes_Independent_School_District" title="Eanes Independent School District">Eanes ISD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hays_Consolidated_Independent_School_District" title="Hays Consolidated Independent School District">Hays CISD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leander_Independent_School_District" title="Leander Independent School District">Leander ISD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Travis_Independent_School_District" title="Lake Travis Independent School District">Lake Travis ISD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manor_Independent_School_District" title="Manor Independent School District">Manor ISD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pflugerville_Independent_School_District" title="Pflugerville Independent School District">Pflugerville ISD</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">State schools</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Texas_School_for_the_Blind_and_Visually_Impaired" title="Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired">Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_School_for_the_Deaf" title="Texas School for the Deaf">Texas School for the Deaf</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Closed6" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Closed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Blind,_Deaf,_and_Orphan_School" title="Texas Blind, Deaf, and Orphan School">Texas Blind, Deaf, and Orphan School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Libraries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Public_Library" title="Austin Public Library">Austin Public Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_de_Zavala_State_Archives_and_Library_Building" title="Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building">Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Hall_(Austin,_Texas)" title="Austin City Hall (Austin, Texas)">City Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Mabry" title="Camp Mabry">Camp Mabry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council" title="Austin City Council">City Council</a> (<a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_1" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 1">1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 2">2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 3">3</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_4" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 4">4</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_5" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 5">5</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_6" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 6">6</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_7" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 7">7</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_8" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 8">8</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_9" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 9">9</a>,<a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Council_District_10" class="mw-redirect" title="Austin City Council District 10">10</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Fire_Department" title="Austin Fire Department">Fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Public_Health" title="Austin Public Health">Health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Police_Department" title="Austin Police Department">Police</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Industry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amy%27s_Ice_Creams" title="Amy&#39;s Ice Creams">Amy's Ice Creams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golfsmith" title="Golfsmith">Golfsmith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keller_Williams_Realty" title="Keller Williams Realty">Keller Williams Realty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schlotzsky%27s" title="Schlotzsky&#39;s">Schlotzsky's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torchy%27s_Tacos" title="Torchy&#39;s Tacos">Torchy's Tacos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whole_Foods_Market" title="Whole Foods Market">Whole Foods Market</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Creative arts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alamo_Drafthouse_Cinema" title="Alamo Drafthouse Cinema">Alamo Drafthouse Cinema</a>/<a href="/wiki/Drafthouse_Films" title="Drafthouse Films">Drafthouse Films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Film_Society" title="Austin Film Society">Austin Film Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collings_Guitars" title="Collings Guitars">Collings Guitars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devolver_Digital" title="Devolver Digital">Devolver Digital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunfire_Games" title="Gunfire Games">Gunfire Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inner_Sanctum_Records" title="Inner Sanctum Records">Inner Sanctum Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powerhouse_Animation_Studios" title="Powerhouse Animation Studios">Powerhouse Animation Studios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Retro_Studios" title="Retro Studios">Retro Studios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rooster_Teeth" title="Rooster Teeth">Rooster Teeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troublemaker_Studios" title="Troublemaker Studios">Troublemaker Studios</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Records" title="Waterloo Records">Waterloo Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Vinyl" title="Western Vinyl">Western Vinyl</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Technology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Advanced_Technology_Development_Facility" title="Advanced Technology Development Facility">Advanced Technology Development Facility (ATDF)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cirrus_Logic" title="Cirrus Logic">Cirrus Logic</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Dell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freescale_Semiconductor" title="Freescale Semiconductor">Freescale Semiconductor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luminex_Corporation" title="Luminex Corporation">Luminex Corporation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microelectronics_and_Computer_Technology_Corporation" title="Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation">MCC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Instruments" title="National Instruments">National Instruments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silicon_Labs" title="Silicon Labs">Silicon Labs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valence_Technology" title="Valence Technology">Valence Technology</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Museums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Austin_History_Center" title="Austin History Center">Austin History Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Museum_of_Digital_Art" title="Austin Museum of Digital Art">Austin Museum of Digital Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Museum_of_Popular_Culture" title="Austin Museum of Popular Culture">Austin Museum of Popular Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blanton_Museum_of_Art" title="Blanton Museum of Art">Blanton Museum of Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bullock_Texas_State_History_Museum" title="Bullock Texas State History Museum">Bullock Texas State History Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Contemporary_Austin" title="The Contemporary Austin">The Contemporary Austin</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jones_Center_on_Congress_Avenue" title="Jones Center on Congress Avenue">Jones Center on Congress Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laguna_Gloria" title="Laguna Gloria">Laguna Gloria</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolph_Briscoe_Center_for_American_History" title="Dolph Briscoe Center for American History">Dolph Briscoe Center for American History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elisabet_Ney_Museum" title="Elisabet Ney Museum">Elisabet Ney Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Legation,_Texas" title="French Legation, Texas">French Legation Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_Carver_Museum_and_Cultural_Center" title="George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center">George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southgate%E2%80%93Lewis_House" title="Southgate–Lewis House">Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson_Wildflower_Center" title="Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center">Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Baines_Johnson_Library_and_Museum" title="Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum">Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexic-Arte_Museum" title="Mexic-Arte Museum">Mexic-Arte Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neill%E2%80%93Cochran_House" title="Neill–Cochran House">Neill-Cochran House Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Sidney_Porter_House" title="William Sidney Porter House">O. Henry Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Military_Forces_Museum" title="Texas Military Forces Museum">Texas Military Forces Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Science_and_Natural_History_Museum" title="Texas Science and Natural History Museum">Texas Science and Natural History Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Land_Office_Building_(Austin,_Texas)" title="General Land Office Building (Austin, Texas)">Texas State Capitol Visitors Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umlauf_Sculpture_Garden_and_Museum" title="Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum">Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_and_Their_Work" title="Women and Their Work">Women and Their Work</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Austin,_Texas" title="Music of Austin, Texas">Music</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Antone" title="Clifford Antone">Antone's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armadillo_World_Headquarters" title="Armadillo World Headquarters">Armadillo World Headquarters</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Austin_City_Limits" title="Austin City Limits">Austin City Limits</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Opera" title="Austin Opera">Austin Opera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Austin Symphony Orchestra">Austin Symphony Orchestra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinematic_Symphony" title="Cinematic Symphony">Cinematic Symphony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emo%27s" title="Emo&#39;s">Emo's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germania_Insurance_Amphitheater" title="Germania Insurance Amphitheater">Germania Insurance Amphitheater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_by_Southwest" title="South by Southwest">South by Southwest</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Austin_neighborhoods" title="List of Austin neighborhoods">Neighborhoods</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allandale,_Austin,_Texas" title="Allandale, Austin, Texas">Allandale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anderson_Mill,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Anderson Mill, Texas">Anderson Mill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barton_Hills,_Austin,_Texas" title="Barton Hills, Austin, Texas">Barton Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackland,_Austin,_Texas" title="Blackland, Austin, Texas">Blackland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bouldin_Creek,_Austin,_Texas" title="Bouldin Creek, Austin, Texas">Bouldin Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bremond_Block_Historic_District_(Austin,_Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bremond Block Historic District (Austin, Texas)">Bremond Block Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brentwood,_Austin,_Texas" title="Brentwood, Austin, Texas">Brentwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryker_Woods,_Austin,_Texas" title="Bryker Woods, Austin, Texas">Bryker Woods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canyon_Creek,_Austin,_Texas" title="Canyon Creek, Austin, Texas">Canyon Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinatown,_Austin" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinatown, Austin">Chinatown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circle_C_Ranch" title="Circle C Ranch">Circle C Ranch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarksville_Historic_District_(Austin,_Texas)" title="Clarksville Historic District (Austin, Texas)">Clarksville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congress_Avenue_Historic_District" title="Congress Avenue Historic District">Congress Avenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copperfield,_Austin,_Texas" title="Copperfield, Austin, Texas">Copperfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crestview,_Austin,_Texas" title="Crestview, Austin, Texas">Crestview</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawson,_Austin,_Texas" title="Dawson, Austin, Texas">Dawson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dove_Springs,_Austin,_Texas" title="Dove Springs, Austin, Texas">Dove Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downtown_Austin" title="Downtown Austin">Downtown Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drag_(Austin,_Texas)" title="Drag (Austin, Texas)">The Drag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Cesar_Chavez,_Austin,_Texas" title="East Cesar Chavez, Austin, Texas">East Cesar Chavez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Riverside-Oltorf,_Austin,_Texas" title="East Riverside-Oltorf, Austin, Texas">East Riverside-Oltorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easton_Park" title="Easton Park">Easton Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Place,_Austin_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="French Place, Austin Texas">French Place</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galindo,_Austin,_Texas" title="Galindo, Austin, Texas">Galindo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granada_Hills,_Austin,_Texas" title="Granada Hills, Austin, Texas">Granada Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hancock,_Austin,_Texas" title="Hancock, Austin, Texas">Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyde_Park_(Austin,_Texas)" title="Hyde Park (Austin, Texas)">Hyde Park Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jollyville,_Texas" title="Jollyville, Texas">Jollyville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montopolis,_Austin,_Texas" title="Montopolis, Austin, Texas">Montopolis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moore%27s_Crossing_Historic_District" title="Moore&#39;s Crossing Historic District">Moore's Crossing Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mueller_Community" title="Mueller Community">Mueller Community</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Burnet%E2%80%93Gateway,_Austin,_Texas" title="North Burnet–Gateway, Austin, Texas">North Burnet–Gateway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Shoal_Creek,_Austin,_Texas" title="North Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas">North Shoal Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Hills,_Austin,_Texas" title="Northwest Hills, Austin, Texas">Northwest Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oak_Hill,_Austin,_Texas" title="Oak Hill, Austin, Texas">Oak Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_West_Austin_Historic_District" title="Old West Austin Historic District">Old West Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onion_Creek,_Austin,_Texas" title="Onion Creek, Austin, Texas">Onion Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pemberton_Heights,_Austin,_Texas" title="Pemberton Heights, Austin, Texas">Pemberton Heights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainey_Street_Historic_District" title="Rainey Street Historic District">Rainey Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosedale,_Austin,_Texas" title="Rosedale, Austin, Texas">Rosedale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saint_John,_Austin,_Texas" title="Saint John, Austin, Texas">Saint John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scenic_Brook,_Austin,_Texas" title="Scenic Brook, Austin, Texas">Scenic Brook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Lawn_Historic_District_(Austin,_Texas)" title="Shadow Lawn Historic District (Austin, Texas)">Shadow Lawn Historic District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sixth_Street_(Austin,_Texas)" title="Sixth Street (Austin, Texas)">Sixth Street</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Congress" title="South Congress">South Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Lamar,_Austin,_Texas" title="South Lamar, Austin, Texas">South Lamar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_River_City,_Austin,_Texas" title="South River City, Austin, Texas">South River City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spyglass-Barton%27s_Bluff,_Austin,_Texas" title="Spyglass-Barton&#39;s Bluff, Austin, Texas">Spyglass-Barton's Bluff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swedish_Hill_Historic_District" title="Swedish Hill Historic District">Swedish Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarrytown,_Austin,_Texas" title="Tarrytown, Austin, Texas">Tarrytown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Travis_Heights,_Austin,_Texas" title="Travis Heights, Austin, Texas">Travis Heights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waters_Park,_Texas" title="Waters Park, Texas">Waters Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Campus,_Austin,_Texas" title="West Campus, Austin, Texas">West Campus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westgate,_Austin,_Texas" title="Westgate, Austin, Texas">Westgate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Line_Historic_District_(Austin,_Texas)" title="West Line Historic District (Austin, Texas)">West Line</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willow-Spence_Streets_Historic_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Willow-Spence Streets Historic District">Willow-Spence Streets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windsor_Hills,_Austin,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Windsor Hills, Austin, Texas">Windsor Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windsor_Park,_Austin,_Texas" title="Windsor Park, Austin, Texas">Windsor Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wooten,_Austin,_Texas" title="Wooten, Austin, Texas">Wooten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zilker,_Austin,_Texas" title="Zilker, Austin, Texas">Zilker</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parks and <br /> recreation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Auditorium_Shores" title="Auditorium Shores">Auditorium Shores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barton_Creek_Greenbelt" title="Barton Creek Greenbelt">Barton Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barton_Springs" title="Barton Springs">Barton Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Walnut_Creek_Nature_Preserve" title="Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve">Big Walnut Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bull_Creek_District_Park" title="Bull Creek District Park">Bull Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_River_(Texas)" title="Colorado River (Texas)">Colorado River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Eddy_Pool" title="Deep Eddy Pool">Deep Eddy Pool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Long_Metropolitan_Park" title="Emma Long Metropolitan Park">Emma Long</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippie_Hollow_Park" title="Hippie Hollow Park">Hippie Hollow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Bird_Lake" title="Lady Bird Lake">Lady Bird Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Austin" title="Lake Austin">Lake Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Travis" title="Lake Travis">Lake Travis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Walter_E._Long" title="Lake Walter E. Long">Lake Walter E. 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