Bye bye Dell...

Darragh29 · 21-12-2008 02:06AM #1

http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS-qqqs=news-qqqid=38366-qqqx=1.asp

Karoma · 21-12-2008 02:07AM

Are you lost? Looking for digg or reddit or something? Regional forum? What's your point?

jaffa20 · 21-12-2008 02:10AM

2000 jobs :eek:

Adam · 21-12-2008 02:12AM

Karoma wrote: »

Are you lost? Looking for digg or reddit or something? Regional forum? What's your point?

+1

anyone can read the news, not that this is news really, it was feared for quite some time now. and who can blame them? they all have lovely bottoms.

futura123 · 21-12-2008 02:12AM

great start to the new year........ 2008 will seem like a year long holiday compared to whats coming

craiginireland · 21-12-2008 02:14AM

will the last person out of the country please turn the lights off (if we had enough money to pay the esb bill)

Mr. Incognito · 21-12-2008 02:15AM

And you thought the crime was bad in Limerick before..........

Orion · 21-12-2008 02:15AM

It has kind of been expected but that's bad news for Limerick. On the other hand it's only Limerick so it's not all bad

Sharpshooter · 21-12-2008 02:19AM

Darragh29 wrote: »

http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS-qqqs=news-qqqid=38366-qqqx=1.asp

OK , I see what you did there , you posted without swearing.;)

futura123 · 21-12-2008 02:19AM

any potentially good news for the economy people........... gettin depressed here:(

RoundyMooney · 21-12-2008 02:20AM

Jesus.

Sympathies to those who will be affected

Guy:Incognito · 21-12-2008 02:23AM

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Jesus.

Sympathies to those who will be affected

That'll be everyone so. Knock on effect of this and all the other jobs lost will be huge.

RoundyMooney · 21-12-2008 02:25AM

craiginireland wrote: »

will the last person out of the country please turn the lights off (if we had enough money to pay the esb bill)

Some of my colleagues remember a time when every second street light was turned off in order to save juice and standing charges from the local authorities. Madness.

stekelly: I think some people on this thread are in mourning already

nkay1985 · 21-12-2008 02:28AM

I reckon that's the biggest hit yet, yeah? One or the largest manufacturing operations in Ireland gone. And one of the only large employers in Limerick. This was feared ever before the economic crisis hit but that doesn't make it any easier on the families affected.

Sqaull20 · 21-12-2008 02:30AM

Will Intel be next then?

This is huge

OPENROAD · 21-12-2008 02:31AM

Bad news for those effected

say their will be lots more in 2009 as Ireland has become too expensive to do business in.

futura123 · 21-12-2008 02:31AM

i just read that 15 thousand jobs indirectly linked to dell

D-Generate · 21-12-2008 02:34AM

Was working near Dell during the summer for another large tech multinational. Dooradoyle/Raheen area is going to have a hella lot of vacant houses in the next few months. I would anticipate that this could cause Banta and Flextronics to shut up shop in Raheen Ind. Estate too since they are suppliers to Dell. So more job losses on the way for Limerick!

pipsqueak · 21-12-2008 02:39AM

Sqaull20 wrote: »

Will Intel be next then?

This is huge

intel has 5000 plus, they couldnt just up and leave to start somewhere else . could they? would take ages !

futura123 · 21-12-2008 02:40AM

not beyond the realms of possibility that intel wud scale back

cornbb · 21-12-2008 02:46AM

Shyte, thats terrible news

there are not many families in Limerick that won't be directly or indirectly affected by this.

Jonathan · 21-12-2008 02:51AM

I had known this was coming..

Sqaull20 · 21-12-2008 02:51AM

D-Generate wrote: »

Was working near Dell during the summer for another large tech multinational. Dooradoyle/Raheen area is going to have a hella lot of vacant houses in the next few months. I would anticipate that this could cause Banta and Flextronics to shut up shop in Raheen Ind. Estate too since they are suppliers to Dell. So more job losses on the way for Limerick!

Yeah ,the chain reaction could start almost immediately.Its going to get very messy.

Ardscoil Ris · 21-12-2008 02:55AM

Come on lads! Off to Poland lets give them a taste of their own medicine

Browney7 · 21-12-2008 02:59AM

Its been coming but this is a devastating blow for Limerick. I'd say there is not one family in the county that hasn't had someone working for Dell at some stage down through the years. Limerick won't be the same again:(

As for Intel potentially leaving. Not a chance. The amount of capital they have put into their factories here nearly means they can't. The Fabs (fabrication labs) they have are some of the most technologically advanced in the world and the expertise required to operate these is not widely available in cheaper locations.

ejmaztec · 21-12-2008 03:09AM

Ardscoil Ris wrote: »

Come on lads! Off to Poland lets give them a taste of their own medicine

Boards.pl will have thousands of threads moaning about the foreigners coming in and taking their jobs, not to mention one thread about hot Irish women. :P

ShooterSF · 21-12-2008 03:13AM

ejmaztec wrote: »

Boards.pl will have thousands of threads moaning about the foreigners coming in and taking their jobs, not to mention one thread about hot Irish women. :P

But then the poor mods in the braille forum will have to move it to AH.

RoundyMooney · 21-12-2008 03:13AM

ejmaztec wrote: »

...one thread about hot Irish women. :P

Started by an Irish lad.

In English rather than Polish.

ejmaztec · 21-12-2008 03:15AM

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Started by an Irish lad.

In English rather than Polish.

Definitely a man of vision.

Is there a sinkingship.ie?

Ardscoil Ris · 21-12-2008 03:16AM

Ah well if I take a positive look at things it means I won't have to get a job this summer, because their won't be any, and I can sit at home all day watching TV and playing with my balls. Happy days!

Peteee · 21-12-2008 03:17AM

Browney7 wrote: »

As for Intel potentially leaving. Not a chance. The amount of capital they have put into their factories here nearly means they can't. The Fabs (fabrication labs) they have are some of the most technologically advanced in the world and the expertise required to operate these is not widely available in cheaper locations.

It should be noted that the fab plant in dublin manufactures 90nm and 65nm chips. (Probably Core2 Duo chips)

Intel chips have recently moved onto a 45nm manufacturing process for later core2 designs and new i7 chips.

While FAB plants do indeed cost billions of dollars, they become obsolete very fast. So while the tech may be amazingly advanced, like the chips they make it also goes obsolete extremely quickly, and I'm not sure how expensive it would be to retool the factories.

Am open to correction on all the above, I'm just extrapolating from what I've seen about the place!

This is indeed a massive blow for limerick. Knew a few guys who worked there.

Bye bye Dell...

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