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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (45127)	1/31/1999 9:57:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike: the following news (dated 1/31/99) mentioned that "Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq:DELL - news), the top direct supplier of PCs, said in November it was selling $10 million worth of PCs over the Internet every day and was on track for about $3.7 billion, or 20 percent of total revenues, from Web sales within a year." dailynews.yahoo.com I have some questions about this. 1) Why Dell only mentioned their sale in November? Is it because their Dec. sale was too rotten to mention, or it is because they did not know the Dec. result yet? But if the latter is true, why they talked about the yearly result? My hunch is that their Dec. sale was bad. I might be wrong. 2) They said $10 million worth of pc sales over the Internet every day in Nov. I think this daily figure came about the same as the one in 3rd quarter. And I remembered M. Dell said after 3rd quarter earning that Dell hoped to get 50 percent of their total revenues from the Net sale. So at least Nov. did not make them closer to their goal. Maybe you have a better way to explain this. Thank you much. Best.