Darrell,
Hi!!
Excellent post and well worth remembering...When I chatted with Robert Williams of IR this past Spring we discussed this "rate" of his shares decreasing...Owning what he owns we'd have to see something like another 10-14 years before he'd be considered just a large shareholder... :o)
Here is something a friend of mine sent me awhile back...He has a vision for DELL's expansion that boggles even my mind... :o) He believes that since most of these are relatively new alliances, partnerships, ventures, etc...Given time the world wide perception will be that DELL is anything but a "boxmaker"...IMO he has a valid point here...Just within the past year DELL has added many new possible revenue growth opportunities...Given time is the key word here...I'm being patient...MSD is a relatively young man and I don't believe anyone should be betting against his company and the team he has assembled...A few quarters of "stagnant growth" :o) :o) :o) and people abandon in their minds what he has accomplished? He still wakes every day willing to conquer more...I wanna be there for the viewing as a long term shareholder...IMO the Andy Grove often quoted prediction concerning servers is his next goal...If AGrove's anywhere near right on this: "Currently there are between 4 and 5% of the servers required to run the internet by 2004 and all of these are obsolete" IS true...DELL's model will conquer this market like all the others they have entered then I don't want to miss this opportunity...And, this is just on the hardware side of what my friend is predicting...
MONROVIA, Calif., Mar 21, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Stayhealthy.com, a leading online company dedicated to empowering
consumers to
monitor their health and fitness, has signed a strategic partnership
agreement
with Dell Computer Corporation (NASDAQ: DELL)
As part of the agreement, both parties will identify and initiate
activities to
enhance and market their respective products and services throughout the
world.
The marketing plan being developed will include but will not be limited
to
developing complementary marketing programs between Dell and
Stayhealthy.com
that promote the brand image of Dell and Stayhealthy.com products and
services
worldwide.
MAR 21, 2000, M2 Communications - Bracknell -- Dell(tm) Computer
Corporation,
the world's leading direct computer system company, has today launched a
new UK
Web site, www.dellauction.co.uk, where consumers can sell their old
computer
systems, regardless of brand and bid for used or refurbished Dell
systems.
MAR 31, 2000, M2 Communications - Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) announced today
that it
will broaden the activity of Dell Ventures to include equity investments
and
incubation services for early-stage private companies, and has appointed
Thomas
J. Meredith a managing director of the group.
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Apr 5, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dell (Nasdaq:DELL), a
world
leader in Internet commerce and infrastructure, today announced
alliances with
Gen3 Partners and Arthur Andersen to assist business customers in
designing and
implementing their Internet strategies.
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Apr 5, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dell Computer
Corporation
(Nasdaq:DELL), a world leader in Internet commerce and infrastructure,
today
announced a new Web site that brings Dell's expertise and services to
small
businesses who want to launch and run their companies over the Internet.
The new small business site, www.DellEworks.com, provides customers a
one-stop
source to establish an Internet presence and grow their businesses with
online
services such as direct mail, direct e-mail, public relations,
recruiting,
credit reports, training and market research.
NEW YORK and BOSTON, Apr 5, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Gen3 Partners, Inc. announced today that the company has entered into a
partnership with Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq: DELL), a world
leader in
Internet commerce and infrastructure, in which Gen3 Partners will
provide
strategic and technical Internet development services to Dell's largest
U.S.
corporate customers.
APR 6, 2000, M2 Communications - Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), a world leader in
Internet
commerce and infrastructure, today announced UK alliances with Aris,
Axon and OS
Integration to assist business customers in designing and implementing
their
Internet strategies. These partnerships will be managed through the Dell
"E"xpert Services Group, a new e-consulting arm of Dell Technology
Consulting.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Apr 10, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Annuncio
Software(TM), a
provider of e-marketing automation software and services, today
announced that
Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL) selected Annuncio Live(TM) to
automate
e-marketing campaigns for its Home and Small Business Group. Dell is
using
Annuncio Live to enhance relationships with its customers and prospects
by
delivering personalized, permission-based communications.
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Apr 10, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dell (Nasdaq:DELL)
today
unveiled a security initiative that is designed to provide more secure
Internet-based communications and business opportunities for its
corporate and
institutional customers.
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Apr 13, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dell Financial
Services L.P.
("DFS"), Dell Computer Corporation's (Nasdaq:DELL) integrated financing
and
asset recovery provider, and joint venture with The CIT Group Inc.
(NYSE:CIT)
(TSE:CIT.U), reports lease originations recently passed the $3 billion
mark
while celebrating its third anniversary on April 14, 2000.
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Apr 18, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Dell (Nasdaq:DELL), a world leader in Internet commerce and
infrastructure,
today announced that it has been selected as the exclusive server
provider for
the infrastructure of a new business-to-business (B2B) application
family
developed by Optika (Nasdaq:OPTK) and hosted by NaviSite (Nasdaq:NAVI).
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Apr 25, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dell Computer
Corporation
(Nasdaq:DELL), the world's leading direct computer systems company and a
premier
provider of Internet infrastructure, announced today that The Boeing
Company has
selected Dell to deliver computing hardware maintenance services for
more than
85,000 users for the next three years.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 2, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
HotLink Inc., a leader in e-procurement solutions designed specifically
for the
promotional products industry, has been selected by Dell Financial
Services L.P.
(DFS) as the vendor of choice for an application to manage the
distribution and
fulfillment of promotional products.
AUSTIN, Texas, Jun 26, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Exterprise Inc., a leading provider of collaboration platform software
for
e-markets, today announced several joint initiatives with Dell (NASDAQ:
DELL) to
enable business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces for joint Dell and
Exterprise
customers.
NEW YORK, Jun 27, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dell (Nasdaq:DELL), a world
leader in
Internet commerce and infrastructure, and MSN, Microsoft's integrated
network of
content and services that help users get more from the Web, today
announced that
the two companies will build on their long-standing relationship and
offer
consumers new Internet services that give them fast, easy and
personalized Web
access and content.
NEW YORK, Jun 27, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
ll (Nasdaq:DELL), a world leader in Internet commerce and
infrastructure,
today announced an expansion of its small business E-service offerings
through
joint efforts with AT&T and a group of other innovative Web-based
businesses.
AUSTIN, Texas, Jun 27, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Works.com, a
leading
Internet business purchasing service, and Dell Computer Corporation
(Nasdaq:
DELL), a world leader in Internet commerce and infrastructure, today
announced
that they are partnering to deliver an online purchasing service and
e-marketplace of business products to Dell's small and midsize business
customers.
AUSTIN, Texas, Jun 27, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --
Works.com also announced that Dell Computer Corporation has selected the
Works.com Marketplace Service to deliver a comprehensive purchasing
service and
e-marketplace of indirect business goods to Dell customers through Dell
Premier
Pages and DellEWorks.com (see press release titled: "Dell and Works.com
Team to
Deliver Online Purchasing Service and E-Marketplace to Dell's Small and
Midsize
Business Customers").
NEW YORK, Jun 27, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- PC EXPO--OneCore
(www.onecore.com), a
leading provider of integrated financial solutions for small businesses,
and
Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), a world leader in Internet commerce and
infrastructure,
today announced plans to deliver seamless, easy-to-use, online financial
services to the small business marketplace. OneCore has been selected to
be a
provider of online financial services for Dell's e-business Web site
www.delleworks.com.
LAKE MARY, Fla., Jul 18, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BAport
Technologies
and Dell Computer Corporation today announced the general availability
of the
BAport Accounting service on the web site ( delleworks.com
);
providing a full-featured, hosted accounting DellEWorks solution for
Dell's U.S.
small business customers.
Dell, the No. 1 computer systems provider in the U.S., today announced a
strategic relationship with Blackboard Inc., a leading Internet
infrastructure
company for e-Learning, to install its Blackboard 5 software on Dell(tm)
servers
for the education market. |
