To All:
Found this in my e-mail this morning. Don't know if it has already been reported on SI. From Information Week today:
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___Ford To Buy 10,000 PCs From Dell______
Ford Motor Co. has signed a multimillion-dollar deal to buy
more than 10,000 PCs from Dell Computer, 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
says. "We're trying to simplify the complexity of the
procurements as the cost of supporting all of these products
goes up," he says. Dell won this latest contract based on a
number of factors, including price and Ford's "previous good
experience in dealing with Dell," the spokesman says.
The PCs, most of them with 32 Mbytes 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 Dearborne, Mich., facilities, the
spokesman says. Although Ford has a number of large desktop
procurements during most years, the Dell deal, signed about a
week ago, is "unusually large," he says.
Financial terms for the contract haven't been finalized.
-- Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
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Doug |
