what a weird take.

they produce a private cloud in the form of racks you can buy then just plug in to power and ethernet and run. also, they did a bunch of work so the OOB management isn't fucking terrible, and it uses way less power per FLOP because they bothered to, for example, "make the fans work properly".

Dell will sell you a thousand servers you can then buy racks for, then rack yourself, then buy switches from Aruba, then plug all the switches in to all the computers, then pay VMWare for an vm-cluster-OS, then you can install that, then when something goes wrong you get to call up Dell, Aruba and VMWare and have them all tell you it's someone else's fault.

you...don't get the difference between these two situations?