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To: TigerPaw who wrote (151937)	1/25/2000 12:21:00 PM
From: TTOSBT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Yeah! notebooks, servers, e-commerce and storage devices, coupled with whatever desktop sales are, could make Niles miss his numbers, when Dell makes or slightly beats theirs! Then it's onward and forward to the enterprise arena when Dell explains why they had to hire an extra 3,000+ assemblers in Tenn. So at best Niles may be a blip correct for a final moment in his career of bashing Dell but where will he go from there or better where will Dell go from there? TTOSBT

To: TigerPaw who wrote (151937)	1/25/2000 3:05:00 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

>>> businesses buying notebooks>>> LCD's are a big part of Dell's future. Those two contracts with IBM and an Asian company for Lcds' . New factories to build them. Price coming down. Will replace monitors on home computers too. Cost of shipping a heavy and big boxed monitor can be saved. Concerning notebooks, a local company is now producing pre-wired conference tables, where each attendee can plug in his portable yet only one power and phone line to a wall outlet is required. I think that reducing the overall cost of computer ownership is a major effort at Dell. That big button on the Webpc is part of it and here is why: There is a vast amount of information stored in computer which can identify what has gone wrong if something doesn't work, I do not know enough to get at it. Would be better to pay a serviceman to come out and do the job than to spend days or weeks of reading books or manuals. I did not have to call a serviceman last week when I lost ISP contact for several hours but could not identify the problem. Luckily my son 40 miles away was able to tell us how to access the minute-by-minute ISP connection data stored in my Optiplex or the Linux server. This immediately showed the problem to be that the &%^$#&# ISP provider had automatically shut down the connection after 12 hours of use, and because of heavy web traffic the server could not reconnect. Being without stock quotes on an Options Friday is unacceptable, could cost $1000's in missed trades. In similar cases of an unknown problem IMO the access to Dell via the ISP or phone for support is invaluable. Summary: Dells immediate stock price does affect me too, but its more important that Dell does jobs like simplifying maintenance, making computers easy to use, and providing the lowest overall cost of ownership. SES ( 2 cents worth, or maybe less?)g