LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Computer maker Dell ( DELL - news - people ) is stepping up a push into the healthcare services market following its $3.9 billion buy of Perot Systems ( PER - news - people ) with a new offering aimed at simplifying life for hospital professionals Dells's mobile clinical computing service promises to cut the time medical staff waste logging in repeatedly to access patient records as they move around hospitals, with customised systems designed around the user, not the software programme.

Dell can try all they like. But by their stocks you can see that they are losing it. I think people are getting tired of mail order when you can walk into a best buy and have 10 different makes and models to put your hands on at the same or less cost of having a “custom” machine built.
Hewlett-Packard plans to buy 3Com Corp. of Marlborough, Massachusetts, which also makes routers and switches that control network traffic, for $2.7 billion in cash. 3Com shareholders get a 39 percent premium.
While 3Com has done well very recently the company has been a long-term laggard. It earned $115 million in the year ended last May, but this was after eight straight years of losses that totaled $2.81 billion.
What might have been: 3Com started in 1979, five years before Cisco. Cisco’s annual sales are now $36 billion compared with 3Com’s $1.32 billion.

It may be failed, but it is due to a lack of marketing, not a lack of quality. 3com in it’s day made the best modems and network adapters. This has always been HP’s style, and every good businesses, find a company that makes a good product that isn’t profitable, use your brand loyalty to remarket said product and gain new marketshare. It worked for them with Compaq. Who had decent sales but their main market was the pro-liant server line, their desktops were junk. That is why HP dropped the name after people got used to seeing the HP logo.
Cray Dethrones IBM In Supercomputing
Andy Greenberg, 11.16.09, 12:00 AM EST
The underdog's Jaguar system replaces IBM's Roadrunner as the fastest supercomputer in the world.
After five years of big iron domination, Big Blue's supercomputing streak is finally over.

Road Runner system that first broke the so-called petaflop barrier last summer. With Road Runner and the Blue Gene/L supercomputer before it, IBM had held supercomputing's top spot for five years running.
The Top500 testers clocked Jaguar's number-crunching at 1.75 petaflops, or 1.75 quadrillion floating point operations a second. At that speed, the system would be capable of performing in about nine hours the same work that would take a typical Intel ( INTC - news - people )-powered laptop around 2,000 years. Despite more than 30 years of supercomputing history, Seattle-based Cray has never before held the top spot on the Top500 list.