Over at www.byteandswitch.com the have an interesting article about EMC missing its quarterly numbers. The CEO actually is taking some responsibility for it. I'm fairly impressed.
A snippit:
What went wrong? According to Tucci, the company misjudged demand for the Symmetrix DMX-3 high-end SAN system it launched in January. (See EMC Makes Good on DMX-3.) He said more orders came in for the DMX-3 and fewer for the older DMX-2 than expected late in the quarter, and EMC didn't have enough DMX-3 systems built to fill the orders. He vowed that EMC will make future product transitions faster and smoother.
"This issue was a self-induced execution failure on our part. There is no excuse," Tucci said.
So they couldn't get them out the door fast enough it seems. Although considering the delta between the DMX-2 and DMX-3 it's not surprising to me. The DMX-3 makes the DMX-2 look a bit like day old bread. Yeah, you could eat it, but why would you?Cheers,
Rich
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