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To: kemble s. matter who wrote (63134)	9/2/1998 12:07:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

I'm a walking talking billboard now, cut my skin and bleed DELL BLUE. Thanks for the t, you can bet I'll wear it out. I'm smiling from ear to ear. It's so cool... Greg

To: kemble s. matter who wrote (63134)	9/2/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

<--OT--> Andy goes to China the land of the PC-obsessed!!! Hi Kemble: Here is an interesting article I found which I thought might be pertinent. Excerpts: Source:Fortune ======================================================= Last year customers in China bought about three million PCs, 44% more than in 1996, according to International Data Corp. Asia/Pacific in Singapore. By contrast, PC sales rose just 19% in the U.S. and fell 2% in Japan. IDC predicts that the Chinese market will grow 29% a year through 2002, when PC sales will reach 11 million. China would then be in a dead heat with Japan as the world's No. 2 PC market, trailing only the U.S. Last year China was only No. 6. The Chinese are taking to computing both at home and at work. Says Xiao Jianguo, a Beijing University professor and a top executive at Founder Software, one of China's largest software firms: "The PC is the hottest product in China. After people have a TV, a washing machine, and a refrigerator, the PC is the next thing they want." In major cities like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, surveys find that about 10% of families own PCs, many purchased for a pampered single child. Consumers are feeding their hunger for PCs despite relatively low incomes. China has one of the world's highest savings rates--around 40%--so even though a PC can cost half a year's pay, people pony up. According to an Intel poll, 50 million Chinese consumers without PCs believe the devices are both desirable and affordable. That's almost one-third of the 160 million such potential PC buyers worldwide. This recipe for a dream market has a special ingredient that makes China even more appealing to Intel: People there crave the best technology. Along with Malaysia and a few other countries, China is where Intel sells microprocessors with the highest average speed. It stages street fairs to hype PCs, and people ride off balancing $1,900 Pentium II 400-megahertz computers on the backs of their bikes. Businesses are embracing personal computing with equal enthusiasm. Says Philip Yu, head of Compaq's Chinese operations: "The PC will become pervasive in business faster in China than in Japan. Not many Japanese companies are using PCs the way we do in the U.S., but they are here." And don't think China is missing the Internet revolution. An estimated one million people have Net access now, mostly in businesses and government offices--though they're blocked from using some political and sex-related sites. Yang Tianxing, chairman of the China Software Industry Association and a former top official in the Ministry of Electronics Industry, estimates that the number of connections will reach 1.5 million this year. So Kemble you think this is good news for DELL or what??? <VBG> pathfinder.com

To: kemble s. matter who wrote (63134)	9/3/1998 12:53:00 AM
From: Sonki	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

kemble, I am wearing nothing @all execptMa Dell T I wished dell would not split at all and we could be competing with BrkB 30,000 +/share. yes 30,000 that's what ma Dell sez. but who is counting? The train conductor sez there is a lot more to climb yet ! just so cool, so cool looks great for hot silicon valley night. hey what happened to David Weiss? He was working on the web site for us? thax again ! thanks ...thax again ! thanks..... did i say thanks? so thoughtful ! did Michel get one?