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To: J Fieb who wrote (28082)	11/15/2000 11:04:45 AM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29386

From the DELL archives. Most of this may be direct attached storage, but maybe not all? Dell To Join EDS To Implement Navy Marine Corps Intranet Contract Company to Provide Servers, Desktops and Notebooks for Largest Federal IT Contract in History -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Round Rock, Texas, October 10, 2000 Dell, the world's leading direct computer systems company, announced today that it will supply servers, workstations, desktops and notebooks for the more than 350,000 seats and associated networks that will ultimately come under management as part of the Navy and Marine Corps Intranet Contract. Dell is a member of the EDS-led Information Strike Force team, which was awarded the contract on Oct. 6. "We are excited to be partnering with EDS and other members of the Information Strike Force on this groundbreaking project," said Tom Buchsbaum, vice president and general manager of Dell's federal government business segment. "The team will bring best practices from the commercial sector as well as extensive experience in working with the federal government to supporting the communications capabilities of the Navy and Marine Corps." This contract is reportedly the largest federal information-technology contract in history and is valued at more than $4.1 billion over five years.

To: J Fieb who wrote (28082)	11/16/2000 10:10:45 PM
From: J Fieb	Respond to of 29386

THIS IS BIG, isn't it? Good work DELL. Good work SI, we scooped them all. Help them out Q, make BofA raise you to Strong Buy! Thursday November 16, 5:01 pm Eastern Time Press Release Dell Adds PowerVault Storage to Navy Marine Corps Intranet Program Win Company to Provide As Much as 2,000 Terabytes Of Storage -- Enough to Hold Entire Contents of All U.S. Academic Research Libraries ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2000-- Dell (Nasdaq:DELL - news), the world's leading direct computer systems company and a premier provider of Internet infrastructure products and services, today announced that it has been selected to supply as much as two thousand terabytes (or two petabytes) of storage to the Navy and Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) Program. This win comes on the heels of Dell being selected as the supplier of servers, workstations, desktops and notebooks for the more than 350,000 seats and associated networks that will ultimately come under management as part of the program. The NMCI program is reportedly the largest federal information technology contract in history and is valued at more than $4.1 billion over the next five years. With an additional three-year option, the contract is valued at more than $6.9 billion. Dell is a member of the EDS-led Information Strike Force team, which was awarded the contract on Oct. 6, 2000. The NMCI program represents a major shift in federal procurement and a move toward e-business. The goal of the NMCI program is to deliver comprehensiveend-to-end information services enterprise-wide to the Department of the Navy through a common computing and communications environment. The NMCI program will ultimately offer the Navy and Marine Corps higher-quality voice, video and data services at a lower cost than they have today. ``With this contract, the Navy and Marine Corps have made a conscious decision to use technology to become more efficient, and we expect other federal agencies to follow suit,'' said EDS Chairman and CEO Dick Brown. ``Dell's ability to provide world-class systems with the industry's best value proposition is paramount to the success of this project. Together with the other Strike Force members, we're helping the federal government move toward employing the best practices from the commercial and government sectors to improve defense readiness while increasing savings for American taxpayers.'' Dell's products will compose the primary network infrastructure for eight Navy Operations Centers throughout the continental United States. Over the next five years, Dell will supply desktops, notebooks, thin clients and servers for up to 66 server farms. The 66 server farms will each be composed of an estimated 2,500 PowerEdge(tm) 2450 and PowerEdge 6450 servers as well as PowerVault(tm) storage systems. With Dell's enterprise-class systems as the foundation of the NMCI program, the Navy and Marine Corps are assured the highest levels of flexibility, reliability and performance. ``Dell and EDS are both at the forefront of helping organizations leverage the power of the Internet to increase their efficiency and lower their costs,'' said Michael Dell, chairman and CEO at Dell. ``The Navy and Marine Corps' decision to standardize on Dell systems is yet another endorsement of our ability to provide the performance, reliability and data security that is essential to improving the way organizations communicate.'' About Dell Let's see Rocker was a > 5% holder of The street, but the street is winding down now, thanks be. He will mention this strike force deal before the lights go out won't he? Right. Rocker might have thought he bought free airtime, but maybe it doesn't work out that way. Maybe Rocker bought the same sound that a tree falling in the forest makes when there is no one to hear it? Nothing. FU Rocker( Long time coming, from way back), I'm better now.