F.Scott Fitzgerald is credited with saying "there are no second acts in American lives" and he may as well have been talking about American business. For every Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL), there are at least two Atari's - most companies have their one big shot as a growth company and then settle into a low-growth maturity or fade away entirely. Tech in particular seems to follow this pattern - how many people remember when Ciena, Lotus, and Netscape were the future of the tech sector?
To borrow another literary metaphor, Dell Computer (Nasdaq:DELL) is not going quietly into its good-night. Once a hot tech stock for its success in the direct-to-consumer PC market, Dell has since struggled to recapture its former glories. Will a multi-year acquisition spree give DELL's shareholders another chance to enjoy above-average growth, or is the company simply frittering away its owners' cash?
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