Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

From: Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 01:39:26 EST


>> I don't have them to hand, but if you think anyone's making money on
>> PCs nowadays, you're delusional (with respect to hardware).
>
> Let's see, Dell has a $66B market cap, revenues of $8B/quarter and
> $500M/quarter in profit.
>
> Lots of people working for companies who haven't figured out how to do
> it as well as Dell *say* it can't be done but numbers say differently.

And how much of that was profit on PCs running Linux?

M.

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