DELL's Kevin Rollins falls on his sword

Kevin Rollins DELL's CEO and a former partner at Bain Capital before joining DELL in 1996, is out. Michael Dell is back in.

DELL is far too important to the IT ecosystem for it to be off on the wild ride it's been on for the past year or two. What's interesting is that from where I sit DELL's problems don't appear to be the usual one of awful execution. You order, they ship. That's DELL in a nutshell, moving product is their art and they're damn good at it too.

This isn't like HP screwing up their ERP consolidation project thereby killing their ability to process orders, blaming partner SAP for everything on a results call  which in itself was hilarious as hp.com was plastered with ads for their HP Adaptive Enterprise for SAP wares, and nearly facing a firing squad of irate customers who's orders were lost or just not processed during a contentious HP World.

Which makes one wonder the nature of the problems DELL are actually facing? AS EMC learned from experience back in 2000/2001 it doesn't matter who you are or how high you're flying eventually gravity gets it's way and down you tumble. It happens to everyone. Always.

I wouldn't expect Mike D to hang around for too long since he's been dragged out of retirement to hold things together, so if any of you out there want to run a sell 'em cheap, rack 'em high box builder now might be a good time to give your resume a polish before emailing it to Round Rock.