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

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: 2) by Whoever on Sunday July 31 2016, @03:27PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday July 31 2016, @03:27PM (#382289) Journal

    Does this mean mobile apps associated with EMC products [emc.com] are about to become Android-exclusive? You can't make iPhone or iPad apps on a Dell. (Legally.)

    As is quite common, The Register's headline doesn't really match the content. The new policy doesn't appear to be to get rid of non-Dell machines, instead, the policy appears to be that non-Dell machines should not be visible.

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