Ford goes with M-SOFT INTEL and DELL
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Dell Lands Huge PC Contract
( 1/07/98; 1:43 p.m. EST)
By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee , InformationWeek
Ford Motor signed a multimillion-dollar deal to
buy more than 10,000 PCs from Dell, which
beat out IBM, Gateway 2000, and other major
PC vendors for the contract.
Ford buys most of its PC products, including
servers, desktops, and laptops, from IBM and
Dell, a Ford spokesman said. "We're trying to
simplify the complexity of the procurements as
the cost of supporting all these products goes
up," he said.
Dell won this latest contract based on price and
Ford's "previous good experience in dealing
with Dell," among other factors, the spokesman
said.
The PCs, most with 32 megabytes of RAM and
200-MHz Pentium processors running
Windows, will be used initially for Microsoft
Office, e-mail, and Internet applications by
users in Ford's Dearborn, Mich., facilities, the
spokesman said. The desktops may also be
used in other larger IT initiatives the company is
evaluating, he said.
Although Ford has a number of large desktop
procurements during most years, the Dell deal,
signed about a week ago, is "unusually large,"
he said.
Financial terms of the contract haven't been
completed. |
