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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (83740)	12/5/1998 10:17:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

<DELL Vs CPQ>- Two Sheriffs in Texas! Tim: Here is little something for your weekend reading Quote of the day. .."But one VAR who was at the show had it figured about right. "When Compaq focuses so much on Dell instead of IBM or HP, you've got to figure that Dell must be good if [Compaq is] worried about them so much."... TWO SHERIFFS IN TEXAS Dec. 04, 1998 (Computer Reseller News - CMP via COMTEX) -- Wasn't this Compaq/Dell rivalry gotten just a little bit out of hand? We think so. After all, Eckhard Pfeiffer and Michael Dell seem to be acting out the Rock Hudson/James Dean roles from the movie "Giant." If you'll recall that classic film from the 1950s, the wildcat oilman Dean rises to the top of the Texas power grid, usurping former king-of-the-hill cattle baron Hudson. That seems to be the fight that's going on now in the Lone Star State between Compaq and Dell, and it sure spilled over into this year's Comdex/Fall. First, Michael Dell pulled out of his Comdex keynote. The folks at Compaq claimed it was the timing of Pfeiffer's keynote which upstaged Dell. Are you with us so far? Then word filtered back to the Executive Briefing staff that Pfeiffer was going to skip the CRN Industry Hall of Fame dinner because Dell was at the head of CRN's annual Top 25 Executives list. As fate would have it, however, Dell and Pfeiffer sat about 20 feet apart at the Hall of Fame awards presentation. We watched the two with morbid curiosity, hoping for a reenactment of the "Giant" scene where Dean and Hudson punch each other out. Didn't happen, though. The two went their separate ways without a word. But one VAR who was at the show had it figured about right. "When Compaq focuses so much on Dell instead of IBM or HP, you've got to figure that Dell must be good if [Compaq is] worried about them so much."