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To: JC Jaros who wrote (51904)	10/20/2000 8:24:58 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

<< Dell clearly is heading off in a less cooperative direction >> Is that why every single laptop and desktop is sold with a Win OS and MS Works or Office?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (51904)	10/24/2000 8:14:50 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 74651

Dell delivers low-cost PowerEdge servers By Jerry Ascierto EE Times (10/24/00, 3:36 p.m. EST) ROUND ROCK, Texas — In a move to address the low end of the server market, Dell Computer Corp. rolled out the PowerEdge 300 today (Oct. 24), a workgroup server aimed at small business and corporate customers. While every PowerEdge 300 will be built to customer specifications and shipped from the factory, the servers are powered by an 800-Mhz Intel Pentium III and can support up to 1 Gbyte of memory capacity. Three internal drive bays with up to 60 Gbytes of internal drive capacity and Dell's on-board server management hardware and OpenManage software will come with every box. But its price point is what the company believes will give the PowerEdge its edge. "This is a true server built to be a server by values not provided by server makers," said Subo Guha, director of marketing for Dell's Enterprise Systems Group. "This is a big threat to the no-name, white-box marketplace, at a price that's a key value to these customers." Selling at a mere $1,039, the box is available now and offers a range of factory-installed network operating systems, including Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server, Windows NT 4.0 and Novell Netware 5.1. "The PowerEdge 300 [is for] customers who thought they couldn't afford true server functionality with a full-featured system that can scale," said Michael Lambert, senior vice president of Dell's Enterprise Systems Group. "This introduction underscores Dell's commitment to redefining server value." Meanwhile, continuing Dell's push into the server market, the company entered into a strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Wash.) Monday (Oct. 23) to develop network attached storage systems, combining Dell's PowerVault storage platform with Microsoft's Windows 2000. While pricing and availability dates of the new systems were not disclosed, the companies said they plan to make the products available early next year. According to research firm International Data Corp., the network attached storage market is poised to explode, experiencing a compound annual growth rate of 66 percent, growing from $850 million in 1999 to $6.57 billion by 2003. eet.com