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To: Ali Chen who wrote (174893)	5/19/2005 10:19:26 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Ok folks, I am really trying to understand the issue. If DELL can control costs and aggressively undersell other people, why some other company can't do the same? Is there something supernatural in Dell's ability to do this, or what? Help me out here, please.>>> Ok, be glad to. Dell is young company with young and recently employed workers. Not only do these people use more computers at home, and teach their kids, some leave and start their own business using Dell computers Dell does not have to pay the perks and retirement for all the left-over Executives that HPQ inherited from CPQ, Tanden, Digital. and HP nor adjust to their demands. If you consider a new company for competition, they have huge and nearly impossible handicaps to entry for doing business Dell's way. I wont state all those here, unless you ask what they are. An example would be that Dell owns (or leases) many square miles of space adjacent to or on large airports to expedite component movement and shipping. Their factory in China at Xiamen is in a safe zone specifically set aside by China to encourage foreign investment and protected from most barriers to entry. They planned ahead, a long time ago ! Sig

To: Ali Chen who wrote (174893)	5/19/2005 10:38:05 AM
From: kemble s. matter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Ali, Hi!! You'd have to read this entire thread to really understand the answer to your question...Sig and others on this thread have witnessed first hand the "why" in efficiency...One could explain endlessly what the eyes have seen first hand...What the ears have heard first hand... If one understands what Michael Dell has started it becomes easy to sympathize with the others who will never catch his visions... But, to answer your question...It's easier than that... :O) And yet, many of the more recent "adjustments" have IMO further distanced the competition... amazon.com Best, Kemble