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To: Boplicity who wrote (143111)	9/29/1999 10:10:00 AM
From: TechMkt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

DELL keeps adding corporations to it's ranks of satisfied customers. This coupled with a push into the consumer market is a winning combo. Fez __________________________________________ Wednesday September 29, 9:03 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Edward Jones Standardizes Worldwide On Dell Servers and Notebook PCS Dell to Deliver Servers with Solaris Operating Environment ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 1999--Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL - news), the world's leading direct computer systems company, today announced that the financial services firm Edward Jones agreed in principle to choose Dell© servers and notebook PCs as its new global standard in a deal worth an estimated $40 million. Edward Jones, based in St. Louis, has agreed in principle to purchase a PowerEdge© 4350 server for each new branch as it expands to 10,000 offices worldwide. Under the agreement, each Dell server Edward Jones purchases over the next two or three years will run the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment with Network File System (NFS) and Network Information System Plus (NIS+) software for network administration and security. Solaris with NFS and NIS+ software will be installed through DellPlus, Dell's custom factory integration service. ``Large enterprise customers may have global presence, but specific, customized needs,' said Theresa Garza, vice president and general manager of Dell's Large Corporate Accounts segment. ``We offer the flexibility and single point of global accountability essential to international companies like Edward Jones.' The server and notebook computer systems will be manufactured in Round Rock, Texas, and Limerick, Ireland, before shipment to Edward Jones locations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Edward Jones plans to gradually phase in the Dell PowerEdge 4350 servers, replacing proprietary servers. The high-performance PowerEdge 4350 servers feature fault-tolerant subsystems, which help improve system availability and reliability. Edward Jones will be leasing the servers from Dell's integrated leasing provider, Dell Financial Services L.P. Edward Jones will use the Latitude notebook PCs to help prepare the more than 200 investment representatives it hires each month for the Series 7 exam. The Series 7 exam is used to license brokers to sell stocks, bonds and other investments. The notebook PCs feature a Series 7 tutorial, factory-integrated by DellPlus. DellPlus provides a wide range of custom-built solutions, including installing and configuring hardware devices, loading software applications and customer-supplied images and providing asset tagging and reporting for Dell systems. Through DellPlus, customers can request variety of operating systems including Solaris, Linux, UNIX©, OS/2©, SCO© and Banyan. Additional information on DellPlus is available at www.dell.com/dellplus/index.htm Dell Financial Services L.P. provides customers with leasing and asset recovery services. With more than $2 billion in lease originations, Dell Financial Services is one of the fastest growing companies in its industry. More information about Dell Financial Services is available at www.dell.com/dfs or 800/955-3355. Edward Jones is the largest financial-services firm in the nation, in terms of office locations. The firm has more than 4,700 offices in all 50 states, Canada and the United Kingdom. Plans are under way to expand to 10,000 offices in the next decade. Edward Jones is the only firm that serves individual investors exclusively, offering a variety of investments including certificates of deposit, taxable and tax-free bonds, stocks and mutual funds. The firm traces its roots to 1871 and today serves more than 3 million customers. Additional information on Edward Jones is available at www.edwardjones.com.