Comments on: The bastards say, welcome.

By: barb

barb — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:04:58 +0000

I work for Dell in the reseller channel sales group.. I can tell you and i speak for a whole group of people in my segment, we truly want our resellers to sell EQL boxes. I believe the direct model is good but resellers are better. Thanks for all resellers out there.

By: Mike B

Mike B — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:01:03 +0000

I read through the EqualLogic SEC docs they filed in regards to resellers. 30% of there business was through CDW. I wonder how the Dell purchase will effect this relationship.

By: Robin Harris

Robin Harris — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:27:27 +0000

Anonymous, don’t leave me in suspense? Who is EqualLogic’s largest reseller? A Dell competitor?

Christopher, Michael has a history of trash talking Apple. A few years ago he suggested that Apple liquidate and give the money to shareholders. Now of course Apple’s market cap is much higher than Dell’s and he looks like a fool for saying that while his own business was heading south.

Steve Jobs, for his part, sent out an email to Apple employees when Apple’s market cap exceeded Dell’s last year, noting the 2 companies reversal of fortune.

By: christopher

christopher — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:57:48 +0000

He also wants to stick it to Steve Jobs in the worst way.

Why is that? Is there a backstory here?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:47:45 +0000

Well I can guess that Equallogic’s largest reseller ( 14% of all of Equallogic sales ths year) will most likely be ending their relationship as an an Equallogic VAR. Anyone else would have been better, but like most resellers/vars the risk of giving customer info to Dell greatly outweighs the positives of staying an Equallogic partner