This is the fourth straight year where your priority is to make money. It's the third where your priority is to grow . You haven't fulfilled those priorities.
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Since he took over, the stock has gone up 25 percent, so clearly the market...appears to be expecting material cost-cutting, of which I would presume a significant ingredient would be work force reduction.Toni Sacconaghi
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Beneath the headline numbers, Dell's FY Q4 06 was not confidence inspiring. Dell didn't gain PC share in the quarter, despite the fact that its gross margins declined meaningfully and the company had an extra week in the quarter.
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The really big overhead issue is the merger. There's just a tremendous amount of uncertainty around that. It's hard to get people excited about, or confident about, the stock given the uncertainty around the merger. If it goes through, there's uncertainty around pulling off integration. If it doesn't go through, the leadership of HP is in question.
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While Sun has held its own in Unix servers in our recent surveys, we believe that Unix market revenues are unlikely to grow materially going forward, and accordingly, that Sun will need to improve its (x86)-based share in order to generate meaningful revenue growth.
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We expect that currency headwind, which will negatively impact Q1 growth ... and rising memory prices, will force Dell to keep expectations low.
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