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To: Paul van Wijk who wrote (133576)	6/20/1999 9:11:00 PM
From: Esway	Respond to of 176387

Sunday June 20, 3:10 pm Eastern Time Dell sees continued importance of the PC-Barron's NEW YORK, June 20 (Reuters) - Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq:DELL - news) Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell sees the personal computer remaining at the core of computing, despite products such as handheld devices and televisions that access the Internet, he said in the June 21 issue of Barron's. ''The PC remains the preferred way to get access to information, and it is going to be at the core of the computing world for years to come,'' he said. Dell's reassuring comments comes amid falling personal computer prices and during preparations for PC Expo, an important computer conference held in New York this week. Dell also dismissed other threats to the personal computer, such as ''thin boxes,'' cheap computers with low brainpower which are connected by the Internet to a mainframe, where the actual computing is done. ''As people got faster and faster Internet connections, they want faster, more powerful PCs, not slower ones,'' he said. The Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker sells direct to customers, and has integrated the Web into sales, design, production and customer service, as a means to improve productivity in times of tumbling computer prices. The company currently conducts about one-third of its sales online, with the goal that such sales will account for 50 percent of total revenue by the end of 2000. Dell said that, while he sees ''freeware'' operating system Linux becoming more popular, he does not see it taking over a massive market share. Dell Computer has a stake in Red Hat Inc., a primary distributor of Linux.