Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Let's face it, most corporate CEOs are not great comedians and, from most reports, the bosses of AMD and Dell are no exception to the rule. However, the joint stage show of Hector Ruiz, CEO of chipmaker AMD, and Michael Dell, founding CEO of computer maker Dell, at Oracle Open World yesterday was not really meant to be funny.
The walk on cameo of Michael Dell during the
keynote address of Ruiz signals a significant strengthening of ties
between two companies that only a few months ago had no business
relationship.
Leaving aside Intel's new star recruit Apple, Dell was the last major
personal computer manufacturer that was still an exclusive Intel shop.
The dam began to show some cracks and trickles in May, when Dell
announced a deal to include AMD Opteron chips in its high-end servers.
The trickles starting gushing in September when Dell included AMD chips
in two of its desktop computers.
The appearance on stage of Ruiz and Dell together at a business
technology oriented technology conference was the bursting of the dam.
It is being widely viewed as a formalizing of an alliance between the
two companies.
During his own keynote, Michael Dell said the company's decision to
partner with AMD was based on customers' demands for more choices.
In perhaps a touch of irony, just as AMD has got its foot in the door
of nearly all the major computer manufacturers, Intel is once again
kicking goals with its new generation of multi-core processors, such as
the Core 2 Duo.
David Bass
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