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To: rudedog who wrote (34512)	3/16/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: jbn3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

re patents and such.... have you compared dell's patent totals with CPQ/Tandem/DEC? that combo does more in a month than Dell has ever done. Rudedog, careful son, your mental knickers are showing! The DELL patent report I provide is for the posters and readers of this thread only. 1. It is intended as a gentle gibe at those who consider DELL "just a boxmaker", and to nudge them to do a bit of homework. If DELL were indeed, just an assembler of parts, then one wouldn't logically expect them to possess numerous patents. Or would you? 2. No comparison was made with IBM, HWP, DEC, CPQ, Tandem, or ANY OTHER COMPANY at all. I provide a strictly factual update, based on the data I find in my local newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman, and which may not be otherwise readily available to many of the readers of this thread. This year, I decided to keep a running annual total. Call it my schtick, if you will. This is the DELL thread, so I don't post other patent announcements. (BTW, the statement you made sounds almost as paranoid as steve/hpeace. Are you also a major CPQ shareholder?) 3. Yes, you are correct that IBM holds more patents than DELL. In the same issue, (Monday, March 16) the item announces 6 patents issued for IBM and one for Tandem. However, as you may be unaware of this, IBM is a more widely diversified company than DELL. *But you are seriously mistaken, like WRONG, dude, when you make the statement you did above. That combo does NOT receive more patents in a month than DELL has ever done.* I trust you were merely striving for hyperbole, or perhaps just exhibiting ignorance and not stupidity when you said that. Because they don't do thousands a month -- or maybe I'm just ignorant. The question is what leverage the patents give to the owner. Valid point. And it is one that many people overlook (or don't know about) when they say that CPQ/HWP/IBM will be able to copy DELL's JIT direct marketing model. DELL has a multiple year head start, and they hold hundreds of patents that make their processes more efficient, more economical, easier, etc. What leverage does that give them? Regards, 3.