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To: rudedog who wrote (35107)	3/20/1998 5:04:00 PM
From: David Harker	Respond to of 176387

Rudedog - you are right, I forgot about Dell's problems earlier. However, in the very start, out of the dorm room, etc, it was a direct model. I thought they tried other, indirect approaches as well (like you mentioned) but I think they always had a direct model at the heart of the company - just that they "deworsified" into some other approaches for awhile. Either way, they do not have the entrenched channel of resellers, etc which are like a stranglehold on non-Dell pc companies (except GTW). These resellers must make their markup, which makes the products they sell less competitive on a price basis than Dell's products. This does not even get into the inherent advantages dell has as a manufacturer (discussed ad nauseum already). I really like this two-pronged advantage dell has - and as long as that exists, I'm in this stock...