Dell's Extreme Makeover - BusinessWeek

Depressing data for Dell – see the full story for turn-around plans

The company Michael Dell started in his college dorm and built into the preeminent personal computer maker has fallen on hard times. As the center of the tech industry has shifted from the PC to the Internet, Dell has struggled mightily to find its place. While Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), IBM (IBM), and other rivals transformed themselves in recent years by acquiring new companies and capabilities, Dell long stuck with its old playbook of cranking out PCs as efficiently as possible. It's hard to remember that in 2005 Dell was valued at $100 billion, or more than HP and Apple (AAPL) combined. Today, it's worth $30 billion, less than a third of its rivals' market values.

Dell's Extreme Makeover - BusinessWeek