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To: John Hauser who wrote (20242)	11/1/1997 11:59:00 AM
From: hpeace	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

John, dell is actaully trying to copy cpq on the campus idea for pc manufacturers. Cpq pioneered the mfg'ing footprint strategy that said " why spread out all over the USA. Plus, we can make it chaeper in the USA than over seas in most cases" A strategy that said why have 40 different plants like HP and DEC with all those extra people. DO it all in one place. Go to Europe for EEC rules and the fareast for purchasing power. Only the dell plant has no automation and people movement between sites and really is pretty ugly..is there even a tree on the entire site??? But, it's the right thing to do. keep all the mfg'ing in USA (real close) and minimize all those extra non value add staffs like acct'ing, planning, mat'l handlers etc. etc. non value add employees is one of IBM and HP's biggest problems. Others have had campuses..TI, HP, IBM....but they didn't centralize to one campus.. Dell is making a great decision to do this... but Cpq pioneered it.