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Computacenter's shift towards IT services instead of products has started to pay off, giving revenues a boost, but first half results were still hit by the costs of catering to its new contracts. "We are not pleased that we did not properly anticipate the operational impact of winning so many contracts at the same time," …

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  1. Matt Bryant Silver badge
    Facepalm

    Translation

    "....We are not pleased that we did not properly anticipate the operational impact of winning so many contracts at the same time...."

    ==

    "....Our sales promised the Earth to every customer that would listen, and we couldn't deliver because we cut back on the actual techies required the year before...."

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Computacenter in Germany

    Computacenter in Germany used to be great about 5 years ago: relatively competitive prices, knowledgeable experienced pre and post sales support staff, helpful and responsive sales teams. Then they started changing everything, losing all their good people in the process.

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  3. Richard Altmann
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    Computacenter

    With that name i think about africans selling stolen goods and would rather ask them for pot than a harddrive.

    All this english word twisting nowadays doesn´t go down well with us Dschörmens

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  4. Mr Young
    Coffee/keyboard

    'Growing pains impacted our bottom'

    Please at least try to pretend you're a grown up - this is getting expensive (see icon)

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  5. The Godfather
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    Knock..

    Bit of a knock, unusual for CC but knocks can arise, and they will again no doubt. Changing models deliver different things.

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