Rudedog,
This one bothered me even more.....
Vanderslice, Rollins, his wife, brother should calm him down....
Dell to Overtake Compaq as Market Leader Next Year, Paper Says
Amsterdam, Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Dell Computer Corp. will overtake Compaq Computer Corp. as the world's biggest maker of personal computers next year, said Chairman Michael Dell, Dutch daily Financieele Dagblad reported.
Dell is already market leader in the U.S., the U.K. and Sweden, and market researcher IDC predicts the company will be global market leader by the middle of next year, Dell told the newspaper.
While the computer industry is currently in a ``deep valley,'' Dell said he still sees plenty of potential since there are only 420 million personal computers in the world and 7 billion people. While sales are trailing forecasts at Dell as well as at Apple Computer Co. and Intel Corp., Dell said he nonetheless expects revenue to grow 27 percent this year.
``The PC remains the ideal machine for working with data just as the telephone remains ideal for calling,'' Dell told the newspaper. ``Internet via the mobile phone is a different application and won't push aside the PC per se.''
Dell was in the Netherlands as part of a tour of Europe to visit employees and customers.
Oct/12/2000 9:55 ET |
