Mark Vena on Dellienware

Edison Trent writes "Tom's Hardware has a piece up on the acquisition of Alienware by Dell in which they've interviewed Mark Vena, Alienware's VP of Marketing, who spilled some interesting beans on the acquisition. Among them is the fact that Michael Dell himself (aka Mr Steve Jobs-alike) supposedly led the acquisition from the beginning (will this force out Alienware management later?), and that Dell will be handling all of Alienwares supplier relationships, including that with AMD. In the more mundane and day to day changes Dell will also be backing Alienware financing of their expensive machines, which is something Alienware couldn't have done before on its own and because Dell will be handling all of Alienwares suppliers the company expects to get more allocation of scarce products such as new graphics cards and ordering an Alienware will no longer be like putting in an order for a car in East Germany."

Re:Sadly

[yesteraeon]

That simply means it's hard to read, not necessarily well written though.

East German Cars

[edunbar93]

ordering an Alienware will no longer be like putting in an order for a car in East Germany.

You mean even terrorist sponsoring countries like... *Canada* will be able to get Alienware computers now? Wow, that would be amazing, considering you can't get them shipped up here for love or money for some bizarre reason. All the people I know that have them had them shipped to some border town where they picked them up themselves.

Re:What's wrong with German cars?

[CableModemSniper]

Um, East Germany refers to cold-war era communist germany (you know post world war II), wherein it would take forever to get your hands on a lousy generic car. They're not talking about modern day BMWs, Porches, VWs or Audis.

Re:What's wrong with German cars?

[askegg]

Opps - misssed the "east" part. I retract my statement.