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To: Susan G who wrote (2336)	5/22/2001 7:15:09 PM
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Dell Computer, BEA Systems In Pact >DELL ( BW)(TX-DELL)(DELL) Dell Helps Customers Speed Deployment of Leading Business Software Business Editors & High-Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2001--Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) today expanded its Infrastructure Accelerators initiative, a program that helps customers simplify the deployment of leading business software, to include additional applications from Ariba, Microsoft and Vignette. The company also announced a relationship with BEA Systems to factory install BEA WebLogic Server on Dell(tm) PowerEdge(tm) servers for support of Java-based applications. In addition to the infrastructure accelerators launched last month, Dell provides a portfolio of tools for businesses to design, deploy, install and configure Ariba(R) Buyer(tm) Application, BEA WebLogic(R) Server, and Vignette Content Management Server and Lifecycle Personalization Server. For each application, customers can take advantage of performance characterizations, custom factory integration, sizing tools, technical white papers, best practices customer workshops and solution engineering services. For customers trying to simplify the process of creating and managing multiple Web servers, Dell will offer pre-installation of Microsoft's Application Center 2000, a comprehensive Web farm deployment and management tool. Rather than deploying costly, monolithic servers built on proprietary hardware and software, customers can scale out their Web infrastructure using redundant clusters of PowerEdge or PowerApp(tm) servers running Microsoft Application Center 2000 on Windows(R) 2000 Server and Advanced Server. Java Customers Supported For customers deploying Java-based applications, Dell will offer BEA WebLogic Server pre-loaded on Dell PowerEdge servers running Microsoft Windows 2000. Dell has already received industry praise for its proof-of-concept demonstrations of BEA WebLogic Server on PowerEdge Itanium-based servers running Red Hat(R) Linux(R). BEA WebLogic Server is used by more developers, independent software vendors (ISVs), application service providers (ASPs) and system integrators (SIs) than any other platform. Serving as the foundation for e-business applications, BEA WebLogic Server provides the underlying application infrastructure required for high scalability and mission critical applications. "Customers want to take advantage of pre-configured enterprise-class solutions they can deploy quickly and cost effectively," said Mike Lambert, senior vice president, Dell Enterprise Systems Group. "With Dell's Infrastructure Accelerator initiative, we simplify the configuration and deployment of leading e-business applications on Intel architecture-based hardware from Dell." Dell recently introduced Premier Enterprise Services to help Dell server and storage customers simplify enterprise computing and get the most out of their IT investments and resources. To speed deployment, Dell's Custom Factory Integration provides custom configuration and installation of software and hardware during the initial system build in the factory. Customers can also take advantage of Dell's Premier Enterprise Support featuring tiered service packages (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze) for Dell hardware, operating systems, and select Microsoft.Net applications to help satisfy their mission-critical needs. For more information on Dell's Infrastructure Accelerators, go to www.dell.com/accelerators or for more information on Dell's PowerEdge 7150 and Java-related development activities, go to www.dell.com/itanium.