Everything's big in Texas

Holy crap...

Dell to Acquire Perot Systems for $3.9 Billion, Creating Comprehensive, Customer-Focused IT-Solutions Company for Rory's birthday. Aww... You shouldn't have. But I love the wrapping paper...and since you did, please include the reciept in case I need to return it.

I love that they want to create this "customer focused" company. I wanted to create a company where everyone just plays on Facebook and shops on eBay all day but now this customer focused thing has me thinking.

So, how hard is Dell trying to remain relevant?

I think this is a good move for them, actually. Dell has made some good money in their time and anytime that they are in a (somewhat) dead business model (like selling commoditized PCs over the web) they can acquire a larger customer based and not get (obviously) behind the power curve.

I have a feeling that the average IT company will be wondering how this wil affect them... Why would it? Were you seeing big competition from Dell or Perot before? Maybe if you were partnering with soem of the big guys on some larger accounts...'cause that's what this is about. This isn't about you and me, this is about Dell being able to compete against the likes of IGS (IBM Global Services), which, in my opinion, they had never been able to really do effectively.

Now we'll see how good they are at integrating large scale services. The Everdream acquisition was nothing compared to this (and I'm not even sure that Silverback had customers). My guess is that it'll all be status-quo for quite a while. The ownership of the bus might have changed, but the bus drivers will stay in place.

All in all, I'm thinking this makes them a pretty big company.
Then again, everything's big in Texas.

Cheers
- R