UPDATE:Dell Executive:See Demand From Large Cos Picking Up In'10
21 Octobre 2009 - 11:56AM
Dow Jones News
Computer maker Dell Inc. (DELL) expects corporate demand to pick
up next year and is open to more acquisitions, an executive said
Wednesday.
Steve Schuckenbrock, president of global large enterprise said
the company will look at acquisitions that will complement its
growth strategy and is interested in areas such as software.
Last month, Dell agreed to buy information-technology services
provider Perot Systems Corp. for $3.9 billion. The deal is the
latest example of a tech giant seeking to expand beyond its
traditional turf to find new sources of profit in a sour
economy.
Schuckenbrock also said it expects the launch of Microsoft
Corp.'s (MSFT) latest operating system Windows 7 to speed up a PC
replacement cycle.
Microsoft is slated to release Windows 7 on Thursday. Despite a
continued weakness in information-technology spending worldwide,
Dell's large enterprise business in the Asia Pacific region
including Japan is doing well, with strong performances in China
and India, said Jim Merritt, president of Asia-Pacific Japan large
enterprise.
"In the first-half, we saw sequential growth across all Dell's
businesses in China. China is going to be the bright spot with
continued investment in technology even during the downturn," said
Schuckenbrock.
Merritt said he expects the strong momentum in the deployment of
virtualization and cloud computing to continue in the Asia-Pacific
region.
Virtualization enables multiple storage devices to be accessed
the same way no matter what their type or location while cloud
computing is where software is accessed via the Internet rather
than installed on individual computer hard drives.
Merritt said the company is helping Alibaba Group, Baidu Inc.
(BIDU) and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (0700.HK) to build their
cloud-computing infrastructure.
Dell has benefitted from China's stimulus package which has
promoted investments in the public sector and IT infrastructure.
Merritt said Dell is working with some Chinese banks and oil
companies but he declined to name the companies.
When asked about Taiwan's Acer Inc. (2353.TW) surpassing Dell as
the world's second-largest PC maker by shipments behind
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) in the third quarter partly due to the
strength of low-cost PCs, Schuckenbrock said: "Chasing pure PC
units is not our priority."
Profitability of the company is more of a concern than unit
growth, he said.
-By Lorraine Luk, Dow Jones Newswires; 852-2802-7002;
lorraine.luk@dowjones.com
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