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To: Gary Korn who wrote (27629)	12/11/1997 4:08:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 61433

Half of sales via internet by 2000 --Dell Reuters Story - December 11, 1997 14:19 %DPR %US %RESF DELL V%REUTER P%RTR NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Dell Computer Corp's Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Dell on Thursday said that in coming years the company expects to conduct half of its customer transactions in cyberspace. At a keynote speech at the Internet World trade show in New York, Dell said the direct PC sales company is selling more than $3 million worth of products a day, or about $1 billion a year, through its site on the World Wide Web. A spokesman said that the company expected to conduct half of its business online by 2000. The Dell CEO said the company had had "several $6 million days" of sales during the past few weeks leading to Christmas. Speaking about the future of electronic commerce, Dell said the company views its site as key to its global growth. He said people are 40 percent more likely to to buy Dell's computers if they have visited the company's Web site. The company, therefore, has 17 country-specific sites in Europe and 16 in Japan and the Asia Pacific region. "We have seen international commerce ramp from zero to 17 percent of our overall internet business in six months," Dell said.