Create product, force your employees to use product, report growing customer base, profit!

We already get information about hazards directly in our line of sight. It's called "eyesight" and it's amazing.

Great stuff, I'm hooked! Clearly a great company with a unique approach, and their speaker (Bryan?) is a very welcome change from boring presentations.

You beat me to it!

The more Cybers, the more Secures!

Thanks all for the likes & reshares!

Thanks Becky, doing well! Nuance in the details, but overall can't complain at all :) Enjoy NetApp Insight!

The desert area around Las Vegas is -to me at least- way better than the city. Glad you had some "you" time!

It's true and that works both ways. I was able to find out more about my great-grandmother parents in a relative tree, but that also helped me discover the entire family branch through tedious study of Italian archives and presumably get all the way back to 1763 on a previously unknown branch.

Just seeing this now... I'm also using gramps-web via docker-compose but make all changes in the Gramps thick client and syncing over. I miss some of the features from MyHeritage, but I'm now at the point where it's a lot of data clean-up / curation, plus cross-verifying sources.

Is the Intel relationship too lucrative to break? Could Dell even afford to build Arm-based servers with such low margins? Does Dell (the man and company) have the will to be more of an innovator and designer of hardware?

So, could Dell afford to move into the build market with Arm, compared to the assembly market with Intel? Overall gross margin is only 21%. Net Income is only 5% (5.2% in CSG, 9.7% in ISG).

Dell spends a tiny amount of money on R&D. Last quarter was $808 million of $23.4 billion revenue, about 3.5%. Historically, the spend was more like 5-5.5% but has declined. The company spends almost 4x this on sales & marketing.

Contrast this to Arm, with no finished product. Dell would need to do the whole "Apple" ecosystem thing and design & build themselves. Dell came from the JIT manufacturing process (more assembly really), so the need to get into design/manufacturing may not be desirable.

Second, Dell takes "finished product" in the form of already manufactured hardware. I don't know if Dell outsources motherboard & server design, but I suspect this is a "lean" process at the moment, as each new processor generation is released.

Agreed. I see a few points of note. First, we have no idea of the Dell/Intel commercial relationship. I expect Dell receives substantial discounts for buying Intel processors and preferential access to development labs before new products are released.

Thanks for the thorough background research here! Pity I checked only today (and glad I did!). The question you raise about both the company and the man seems self-explanatory.