Comments on: Fallout from Dell withdrawal report

By: security shield 2011 virus

security shield 2011 virus — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:38:23 +0000

Hope Dell can produce more cheap and good products.

By: knowitall

knowitall — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:27:11 +0000

Dell will be closed and its a fact!
1.They are saying that there is no decision has been made but what subject was the conversation about?
2.Why Mr Cannon who came with the idea to sell or close as many Dell’s factories as possible visited Ireland and was on meeting with who?-with the minister of the department of trade and employment!??Mr Dell likes to show up only on opening new lines and factories but trusts to do dirty job to someone else!
3.Dell closed one of their two factories in USA in Texas because of the drop of the demand!There are two factories in Europe at this moment and guess which one will be closed,certainly not recently opened one in Poland!No need to explain why..

It is the matter of time which is not up to Irish government or people to decide and of course they analyzed everything before spreading this information in the media and only 1 percent out of 100 that their idea will be turned back!

What did you hope on?On Uncle Sam who will give you tons of gold like a lepricon?He will kill anyone himself for gold like they did with local populations in North America!And now look at south,..And you are saying about factory closure..

By: intheknow

intheknow — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:29:31 +0000

Flextronics are looking for 80 to 130 redundancies from their 270 workforce in Raheen. Where is willie o’dea?

By: to the point

to the point — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:23:25 +0000

Its here for another year anyway

By: Mucky_takkies

Mucky_takkies — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:01:02 +0000

There has been a naivity on Limerick’s/Ireland’s part not to have foreseen this and planned for it. I was home last Xmas when there were also rumours about Dell closing and a taxi driver to the airport was saying “Dell will never close”. When asked why he simply said “I have it on top authority it will never ever close”. Seems our political leaders must have had the ear of the same “good authority”. Have we learnt nothing from the Wang experience of the early 90’s? Or Apple down in Cork? Ireland’s strongest point in recent times has been our cumulative intellectual wealth which has come from tertiary-level graduates . Given just the population size alone, we were never going to be able to compete in the manufacturing sector long-term.

While the times were good we should have been adding more in the services sector whilst also further developing of our collective intellectual capacity by encouraging PHD’s, post-graduate qualifications etc. In a global economy, we need some form of differentiation and a low-skilled worker on a factory line was not the way to go when you stack ourselves up against China, India and other developing Asian nations.

We can all talk about what went wrong, who’s to blame, what to do now but spare a thought for all the families that will have this looming come Xmas. ‘09 is shaping up to be some seriously lean times so a thought goes out them.

By: gfdm1962

gfdm1962 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:09:24 +0000

how stupid can people be!!!!!! dell can make the same computer in poland and pay their staff there 450 euro a month, most dell employees in limerick earn that in a week with overtime included, its not rocket science , for gods sake people cop urselfs on , wishing that dell wont leave is pointless, they are already on their way……….. 80% of laptop/notebook production is already being done in poland, i ave 10 years experience in connection with dell, its never been this quiet, no overtime in october in dell is unheard of ………the writing has been on the wall for a long time for those who wish 2 see it, “cant see the woods for the trees ” is the case for most politicians , but some already know the outcome, ask mary harney!!!!

By: bobo

bobo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:30:36 +0000

to john,
perhaps its you thats missing the point. Market share at the expense of profit is hardly in the interests of shareholders.
Its very much about trying to be numero uno like they were in the 90’s except that back then it was an entirely different global landscape. Dell were poineers in many ways and quickly became number one, but things have moved on a long long way since then.

I cant be arsed going into a global economic history of the computer manufactuiring industry but sufice to day that Dell no longer can take on the other giants to be number one without vast changes and even then it will be at a serious cost to profits and as we will see, quality, repuatation.

If you had to endure sitting down at dells monthly meetings where they brag about the billions in profit they made (while not relecting such profit in wages), and listen to them harp on about various things like say ‘market share’ and ‘getting back into pole position’ etc etc then you might get the right idea.

As for sayin ‘dell didnt have to come to limerick’ hahaha well by that rationale …shesssh. Ok, tell you what, i’ll write them a Thank You card and you can have a whip-around to get them something nice.

By: To the point

To the point — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:28:22 +0000

Minnie maybe the company your husband works for are no longer needed by dell,dell will be here in march and thats a fact.

By: minnie

minnie — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:50:00 +0000

My husband is a contracter foe dell and they have been told most will be gone by christmas and the plant will be closed by March?????? They have actually been officially been told this. Wy havent the dell staff?

By: John

John — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:42:40 +0000

@ Bobo

What you seem to be missing is that Dell ceased to be about Michael Dell when they went public. Dell is about satisying the needs (want’s/desires) of its board of directors and more importantly it’s shareholders. There is nothing else that is important to Dell than the inflation of it’s stock price which directly affects it’s shareholders.
Some of the shareholders are working in Ireland some in asia some dont work for Dell at all and are holding Dell’s stock as a means to bolstering a portfolio that maybe they will use to retire, pay medical bills in the future, put a child through school, what ever the reason that they hold stock is inconsequential but the bottom line is that Dells responsiblity is to those that have invested in the company.
They did not have to come to Limerick at all to begin with and can you imagine the state of the country had that indeed been the case?