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To: Sam Bose who wrote (142243)	9/16/1999 10:23:00 PM
From: Sam Bose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Business Week comments on DELL in next week's issue: Business Week: September 27, 1999 Cover Story -- e.biz -- The e.biz 25 Michael S. Dell When it comes to exploiting the promise of the Internet, Michael S. Dell is taking the rest of Corporate America to school. Other executives at first scoffed at this geeky new world, but Dell made sure his Dell Computer Corp. had set up shop on the Web by 1995--olden days in Internet time. Now, the company is one of the top merchants in cyberspace, selling $30 million worth of computer gear a day. And, after being e-engineered from top to bottom, Dell may be the only company that has made itself a Net company without selling Net products. It was Dell himself who led the charge. The 34-year-old identified and exploited benefits of doing business online, from pumping up sales to slashing the cost of taking service calls. Dell has spent heavily to improve the customer's experience at Dell.com--such as a new feature that lets purchases made online flow directly into a corporate customer's accounting systems. The payoff: ``We can interact much, much more efficiently with them than with their rivals,' says Ford Motor Co. CIO James A. Yost. Just as important is what happens behind the scenes at Dell, where the company--and often Michael Dell himself--scrutinizes what is selling, in real-time, in order to get a jump on other PC makers. To make sure the process is as efficient as possible, the company is establishing electronic links with its top 30 suppliers. The result: Dell has a return-on-invested-capital of 260%--easily four times that of its nearest competitor. And Michael Dell is still cranking. He's pushing his ``e-service' concept to the next level: hardware that can automatically diagnose its problems and notify a service rep over the Net. ``Think of the Internet as a weapon there on the table,' he says. ``Either you pick it up or your competitor does--but somebody is going to get killed.' For Dell's rivals, that's a scary prospect. By Peter Burrows

To: Sam Bose who wrote (142243)	9/16/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Dorine Essey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Hi Sam, I found this on the RB board. By: Aurelia__ Reply To: None Thursday, 16 Sep 1999 at 3:56 PM EDT Post # of 39090 9/16/99 - Dell Takes Massive Supply Order from Barclays, Edging Out Two Middlemen Sep. 16 (Daily Mail/KRTBN)--Hi-Tech floats are usually soaraways: but two recent glaring disappointments were Computacenter and Morse Holdings. Why? One reason was fear of Michael Dell, boss of Dell Computers and one of the world's richest men. Yesterday, he showed what middlemen like Morse and Computacenter have to fear. He unveiled a UKpound 50 million deal to supply all of 50,000 computers at Barclays Bank. Dell will also take over help-desk and maintenance services, cutting out Computacenter. It takes orders via the Internet and claims its costs are 50 percent below rivals who use middlemen. Dell is leading the move to e-commerce, but others are following. Software installer Axon says average contracts for e-commerce systems are worth UKpound 500,000 and should soon top UKpound 1 million. First-half profits almost doubled to UKpound 1.7 million. The shares are 302 1/2 pence. The mention of e-commerce spreads "pixie dust" for investors, says George O'Connor, of broker Granville. By Tim Freeborn