Michael Dell using virtualization to spark commercial sales
Increasingly popular netbooks – low-cost notebooks – don’t appear to be stealing sales from more expensive, higher performance laptops, said Dell CEO Michael Dell.
“It appears to us this is mostly a complimentary category,” Dell said on an earnings conference call Thursday. “We (are) diving into that in a big way.”
Netbooks have been among the fastest growing segments of the PC market in the past quarter, especially in the emerging markets where consumers have less to spend.
Dell also said his company is focused on fielding products with good margins instead of cutting prices to gain market share.
“Given the choice between profits and growth, we’re going to go for the profits,” he said. “The first priority for us it so retain solid profitability for the company” in today’s tough economic climate.
Dell added that he expected to include more virtualization software in his server and storage lines to spark growth among commercial customers.
Posted by Mark Boslet 
