Roy Kinnear RIP
Now call me paranoid but after reading this little missive twice I somehow get the feeling that young Austin has perhaps one ore two misgivings about the channel. Saying that HP and Lenovo 'have no qualms' about working indirect is a bit of a strange way to describe a distribution method that has proved to be of greater benefit to a customer than the direct model - and provides an awful lot of jobs to people who read this very site too.
Oh, could you stop repeating this bilge about Dull previously being a direct-only company? We've all seen the half-baked ads they did spouting this crud but the truth is rather different; Dell have long had an indirect relationship with people where it suited them, they just don't like journos to know about their utter hypocrisy.
I think you might get a slight notion that I'm not a fan of this company.