Dell Inc Overview

A brief background about Dell Inc.

Dell is one of the giant and leading companies in the world of computer technology It is an American computer hardware company located in Round Rock, Texas and it has a list of grand accomplishments and awards.  Founded by Michael Dell in the early nineteen eighties, Dell Inc. now has over ninety-six thousand employees directly, and even more for indirect retails sales and service.  Fortune also listed Dell Incorporated as the number five most admired companies within its own industry. During 2005 Dell was the number one supplier of personal computer systems (PCs) worldwide as well as in the United States. Dell’s founder, Michael Dell, pioneered the direct-to-consumer sales model for computers. It has completely abandoned retail stores and sells all its custom-assembled PCs directly to consumers by mail order, allowing for higher flexibility, lower inventories, lower costs, and higher profit margins. A second feature of Dell is the Wintel platform (Microsoft Windows operating system and Intel microprocessor), which characterizes its PCs. Although Dell has exclusively used Intel chips in its computer systems in 2006 the company announced plans to use chips from AMD in some of its high-end servers.

Historically speaking, the idea of Dell was initially attempted by Michael Dell in 1984 when he was a college student in Texas. He commenced with creating a PC in his dorm room focusing on the sale of IBM PC compatible computer systems, created from basic stock components. After dropping out of school to pursue this business, Dell created the very first ‘Turbo PC' which sold for a little under eight hundred dollars.  Attaining reasonable sales rate, these custom-assembled units sold over seventy-three million in only the first year. In the late nineteen eighties, Dell changed the name to Dell Computer Corporation and began to sell its products globally resulting to have been included in Fortune’s top five hundred largest companies...