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HP and Oracle reconciliation is only superficial, the real war broke out. Oracle founder Larry Ellison in particular, recently boasted want to buy chip company, which started out red chariot rapid Hurricane.

Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd’s predecessor, was appointed as Oracle’s CEO, because of the existence of competition, less than 24 hours later, HP filed a lawsuit to stop the appointment. September 21, Hewlett-Packard to withdraw complaint, the two sides reach a settlement. Oracle c Larry Ellison said: “Oracle and HP will continue to build and expand more than 25 years has maintained cooperative relations.” But clearly, both from the point of view Ellison’s character, or was he not stop view the acquisition of tanks, Oracle and HP will not have had the intimate cooperation, both sides face increasing competition. Of course, Oracle’s competition is not only directed at HP, even IBM, Intel, Dell.

IBM, HP, Intel, Dell and other companies started to hardware, and Microsoft, the main brands are in blue tone, started from the Oracle software business is usual bright red. Starting from the acquisition of SUN, Oracle entered the hardware from the field of high-end server to Oracle’s distinctive red logo to represent the beginning and Hewlett-Packard, IBM Blue camp a positive conflict.

Dell CEO Michael Dell (Michael Dell) U.S. time on June 3 said the company’s transformation has not yet succeeded because he considered him to build the company private. The news led to shares in the Nasdaq stock market closed Dell one and a half hour before the sharp rise to 13.76 U.S. dollars eventually closed, or 4.9%.

The so-called privatization of listed companies, is a special kind of capital markets, M & A operations. The biggest difference with other M & A action difference is that its objective is the acquisition of listed companies were delisted from the public companies into private companies. Popular is that the controlling shareholders to minority shareholders to buy back all your shares in the hands of, and expand existing share, the company eventually delisting.

Dell’s remarks to the stock market had expected Dell to premium merger, which shares surged. But analysts pointed out that if the deal happens, many other stock price will fall.

Kaufman Bros analyst Shaw Wu said Dell will be privatized without any problems, but this will require substantial external financing, and will not change the company’s structure, can not fundamentally improve the Dell and HP and Apple competition strength .

Dell Dell many investors are concerned about the current move, such as it is now being led from a PC manufacturer of high-margin technical services to the changes.

Dell CEO said that the change has not been completed.

In answering a question at an investor conference, Dell said he considered the company private, but when asked under what circumstances he would be more serious consideration to this possibility, the Dell did not answer.

He also said he is determined to operate a good company.

Dell spokesman declined to comment on the matter.

According to data provided by Thomson Reuters, Michael Dell, Dell is currently the largest shareholder, with 11.6% of the shares.

November 20, according to Bloomberg news agency reported the world’s third-largest personal computer maker Dell Inc. reported quarterly results Thursday, as the company’s personal computer business to reduce its market share, its third-quarter earnings fell short of expectations.

To profit in the October 30 deadline to the third quarter, Dell’s 337 million U.S. dollars to achieve net profit per share profit of 17 cents, a year earlier the company had profit of 727 million U.S. dollars, 37 cents a share. The third-quarter revenue by 15.2 billion U.S. dollars last year fell to 12.9 billion U.S. dollars. Excluding one-time costs, its third-quarter earnings per share were 23 cents. Prior to this, analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had on average expected the company’s third-quarter earnings of 28 cents per share, quarterly revenue will reach 13.2 billion.

U.S. investment firm Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu, said: “Dell’s quarterly revenue and earnings per share were failing to meet analyst expectations. It was somewhat disappointing. After PC industry supply chain to other manufacturers, including Intel, Apple and Microsoft are all showed strong performance, but Dell is not the case. ”

It is reported that Dell announced earnings before the part of the IT industry analysts and the research firm had indicated that recent reports indicate that Dell’s market share is constantly being replaced by their competitors.

Market research firm Gartner Inc posted third-quarter report on the PC area show that the world’s second-largest PC maker Dell’s position has been replaced by the Taiwan-based manufacturers. At the same time, Gartner also said that Dell’s shipments in the third quarter fell 6.7% year on year to 10.3 million units, while Acer’s shipments rose 23.6% to 12.5 million units.

Dell CFO Brian Gladden in a conference call to discuss third quarter earnings results when it was said he was in the PC market, Dell’s place is clear. He believes that Dell’s fastest-growing business will have on its overall operations of a positive impact.

Greendon said: “We have 80% of the business of a commercial nature, but most of the growth businesses are concentrated in consumer marketing. In addition, our overall business market share is declining.”

Even though Microsoft’s latest operating system Windows 7, also failed to help Dell improve its operations, because Windows 7 is in the third quarter last week before the release of Dell’s PC sales much.

Greendon said: “Windows 7 release timing of hand, the company’s third-quarter revenue had a negative impact.” Meanwhile, he also said that Dell will be the future for consumers and small and medium enterprises working list of more products.

Dell CEO Michael Dell said in a conference call the company will in the fourth quarter from the release of Windows 7 benefit.
Dell said its third-quarter shipments fell 5% year on year. Consumer sales amounted to 2.8 billion, down 10% year on year. Large enterprise sales fell 23% to 34 billion U.S. dollars, revenue fell 19% in small and medium enterprises to 30 billion U.S. dollars.

In the third quarter, Dell’s desktop personal computers operating revenue fell 26%, while the Internet and mobile products business in this revenue fell 14%. Servers and network equipment business revenue fell 6%.

Dell is not clear that its fourth-quarter earnings and revenues of specific data, but the company said its fourth-quarter sales would improve. Analysts expect a fourth-quarter earnings of 30 cents per share, total sales of 13.54 billion U.S. dollars.