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To: rudedog who wrote (153858)	2/24/2000 4:37:00 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

rudedog: Any comments on these statements..??.. <<Despite the lure of profitability, Josh Greenbaum, analyst at Enterprise Applications Consulting, argued that hosting is a complicated business and that Dell is placing itself at odds with many of its customers. "For every two (services) sales Dell does, it loses one sale as a hardware manufacturer," he said. "They undercut their own sales. They're now competing with a bunch of low-level ISPs. This is so far from their core competencies, so down-market. It's almost like: 'What was Michael Dell thinking?' " Mattox said the profit margins in hosting make the endeavor worthwhile for Dell, which is selling the new service direct from its Web site. He added that Dell has the expertise required to run a hosting business. "The people running Dell.com know how to run a site," he said.>> ** Comments above from: Where the money is By CNET News.com Staff February 24, 2000, 7:40 a.m. PT news.cnet.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Scott