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To: SecularBull who wrote (60600)	8/24/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Gary, please explain why DELL's competitors haven't succeeded in implementation of their own direct models (if it's so easy to do). Sorry... Im a little late to this discussion, but who says a direct model is easy to do? The software that supports a direct model is NOT easy to do. In fact, Compaq has had tremendous problems with it since day 1. Dell sort of avoided some of the complexity and were successful (too much detail to go into here). IMO Compaqs inability to build a successful ERP model really hurt any progress towards their direct model. MH