Michael Dell On Partner Sales Growth After The EMC Acquisition

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Is there somebody who heads up R&D across all the pieces of Dell Technologies at this point?

We're investing roughly $4.5 billion a year in R&D. There was a list that came out a week or so ago that showed we were No. 17 in terms of all patents among global companies, not tech companies, all companies, so we have an incredible innovation engine. We have certainly big R&D teams all over the world. We've got our CTOs working together, for example, on the topic of AI, machine learning, machine intelligence. I've been working with our R&D leaders from across the business on that topic. Do you bring them all together under one person? Not really. If there was such a person, that would be me, but these teams are highly innovative, they're doing great work and we don't want to create an overly bureaucratic, centrally controlled thing. We want them to be innovating, and where it makes sense to work together, we absolutely do that.