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Ditch Your Macs, Dell Tells EMC Staff

posted by janrinok on Sunday July 31 2016, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the eating-your-own-dogfood dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Amid Dell's looming takeover of EMC, an edict has been issued insisting that Dell customers must only ever see Dell laptops during meetings and consulting engagements, EMC insiders have told The Register. Thus, any Macs in EMC staffers' hands will be confined to quarters.

After Dell and EMC combine, those office-bound Apple computers should be safe from company-wide rollouts of Dell Windows PCs. EMC has in the past revealed it has a bring-your-own-device policy that lets people use personal devices to access email, in-house messaging and private cloud storage.

At least EMC staff after being offered nice replacement kit, in the form of the gaming-bred XPS machines, that another insider told us have been promised to incoming Dell employees.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @07:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @07:42AM (#382202)

    GM salespeople don't usually drive BMWs. Apple's salespeople aren't noted for walking around with Dells. IBM's salespeople aren't known for showing off their HP computers, and so on...

    It would have been way bigger news if EMC's salespeople had been told they could show whatever they wanted to the customer - and hey, maybe use Hitachi storage too.

    This is very much a dog-bites-man kind of story.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Sunday July 31 2016, @11:54AM

    by Nuke (3162) on Sunday July 31 2016, @11:54AM (#382238)

    GM salespeople don't usually drive BMWs.

    Rolls Royce salesmen don't usually drive Rolls Royces, they drive Fords. A RR customer would not want to think that he would be using the same car as a mere salesman.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by davester666 on Monday August 01 2016, @09:00AM

      by davester666 (155) on Monday August 01 2016, @09:00AM (#382539)

      Dell isn't Rolls Royce. Maybe more like Lada with a worse warranty.