is going to sell its PC business, according to reports in the and . HP is currently the world鈥檚 largest PC maker. Round Rock-based is the second largest.
So what would it mean for Dell, which employs about 16,000 people in Central Texas? We asked a senior lecturer at the University of Texas
鈥淚f HP sells, this is the best thing that could happen to Dell in the next year, year-and-a-half," Doggett said.
"Everybody who鈥檚 buying a lot of PCs is going to say, 鈥業 don鈥檛 want to deal with a company where, in the case of HP, everybody鈥檚 worried about keeping their job. I鈥檓 going to look at Dell, because Dell is the last man standing,'" he said.
But Doggett believes Dell needs to make some strategic shifts to keep its PC business thriving.
"First, it has to cut the number of PCs and laptops that it offers, make each of them innovative and special, because if it doesn't, Dell is going to face the same fate as IBM and HP," he said, citing competition from Apple in general and the iPad in particular.
Dell today, saying it expects growth in the 1 to 5 percent range this year, instead of 5 to 9 percent.
