[ Thanks to The
VAR Guy for this link. ]
“The VAR Guy runs hot and cold on Lenovo. One minute, he praises
Lenovo’s ThinkPad brand. The next, he openly wonders if Lenovo can
hold off rivals like Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Acer. Plus, Lenovo’s
server strategy–particularly as it relates to Linux–is nowhere to
be seen.“Frankly, The VAR Guy always considered Lenovo ‘half’ a company.
Sure, Lenovo makes solid laptops, desktops and workstations.
Wonderful. And Lenovo dominates the PC market in China. Kudos. But
the former IBM PC company lacked more sophisticated
products–particularly Intel servers running Linux and Windows.
That’s where the real action–and the real margin–is…”