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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (113885)	4/1/1999 2:17:00 PM
From: Frank E W	Respond to of 176387

IDG'S PC WORLD RATES DELL HOME PCS 'OUTSTANDING'- Mohan : did you expect anything other? <g> We know MSD would except nothing less than Outstanding! Frank

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (113885)	4/1/1999 2:26:00 PM
From: TechMkt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Why would a company expand facilities unless business was GREAT and expected to bet even BETTER. Building new facilities would be the last thing a company with "revenue problems" would do. The new Austin/Graceland expansion announcement leaves no doubt that DELL has bigger plans we have not heard about yet. Fez ____________________________ Thursday April 1, 11:03 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Dell Selects Nashville for High-Tech Expansion ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 1999--Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL - news), the world's leading direct computer systems company, today announced U.S. expansion projects to support the growth of its North American business, including construction of additional facilities in Central Texas and expansion of some operations to a new location in the Nashville, Tenn., area. Projects announced today include an office building and a manufacturing facility in Central Texas, and new operations in the Nashville area by the end of this year. Dell selected the Nashville area as an additional U.S. site and is pursuing negotiations with state and local leaders. Other locations Dell has studied are in the southwestern, southeastern and western United States. The new projects continue Dell's global expansion, including the announcement or completion of five manufacturing facilities worldwide over the last 16 months. Among the new facilities are two in Ireland and one each in China, Brazil and the United States. The Tennessee location will complement Dell's operations in Central Texas which currently include two campuses, totaling 940 acres; 3.5 million square feet of space and three manufacturing sites. As Central Texas' largest private employer, Dell's direct and indirect economic impact is estimated by economists to be more than $5 billion and 50,000 jobs. Last year, Dell hired 4,000 new employees in Central Texas and economists estimate that more than 60 percent of all new jobs created in the area were attributable to the company. While Dell considers several Nashville-area locations, it is also discussing its infrastructure requirements with Tennessee officials. These include completion of telecommunications and transportation projects within specific timeframes. ''We want to work with state and local leaders to address our priorities in a way that is beneficial to Dell, to the state, and to the community,'' said Dell Vice-Chairman Kevin Rollins. ''Clearly, there are many advantages that a Tennessee expansion could bring Dell. But equally important are the advantages that a Dell expansion would bring to Tennessee. The thousands of technology jobs created by Dell and our suppliers would launch and stimulate a new sector of the Tennessee economy. We would hope that Dell's investments could have the same positive effect for Nashville that they've had for Central Texas.'' Dell's growth has been a catalyst in other economies as well. In Ireland, where Dell opened its first facilities nine years ago to support the European market, it is now the country's largest private employer. Within the last 16 months, Dell has announced or completed two new manufacturing facilities in Ireland to support customer demand for Dell products throughout its European markets. Dell is still growing at its corporate headquarters in Central Texas. New Central Texas expansion projects planned for this year include a 300,000 square-foot manufacturing facility and a 325,000 square-foot office building on a site in northeast Austin. These facilities are in addition to three Dell office buildings currently under construction in Round Rock and will bring to five the number of buildings underway or completed by Dell in Central Texas in 1999. Collectively, these projects will support up to 5,000 additional jobs.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (113885)	4/2/1999 9:57:00 AM
From: Indelible	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Government Computer News...FOSE 1999,Dell Latitude wins best of show,hardware. gcn.com Dell, Novell share top honor for best new products at FOSE Two products tied for Best of Show honors March 16 when Government Computer News editorial director Thomas R. Temin announced the winners of the Best New Product Awards at FOSE. The lightweight Latitude LT M266ST notebook from Dell Computer Corp. and the NetWare 5 network operating system from Novell Inc. both received Best of Show honors. "We felt we had to make both a hardware and software award this year," said Temin, one of the 14 members of the product judging panel. "Judges loved the Latitude LT for its extraordinary function in a mere 3-pound portable. And we honored NetWare 5 for its remarkable leap forward over previous versions of the NOS. After some debate, we decided to give awards to both products." Last night's award was Novell Inc.'s first in the four years since GCN started honoring best new products at FOSE. Dell is a repeat winner, although it never won in the portable category. "The outstanding quality of contest entries this year made the job of deciding the winners quite challenging," Temin said. "In several categories, the scores were very tight." NetWare 5 was the winner in the enterprise software category. The Latitude LT took the top honors among eight finalists in the portable computer category. Eleven other products won Best New Product Awards at FOSE '99. Hewlett-Packard Co. took three awards, more than any other company: The HP 9100C Digital Sender won in the enterprise peripheral category. The ProCurve Switch 2424M took the honors in the communications product category. And the LaserJet 8100 Printer Series won the printer category. HP has won in a printer category every year and has received more awards at FOSE than any other company--nine in all. IBM Corp. took the prizes for the two server categories: The Netfinity 5500 M-10 won in the workgroup and departmental servers category, and the Netfinity 7000 M-10 received honors in the enterprise server and system category. Dell also earned top honors in the end-user computer category for its OptiPlex GXlp PIII, the second time an OptiPlex has won a FOSE best new product award. The GXlp's predecessor, the OptiPlex Gxpro 200, won in the desktop computer category in 1997. Symantec Corp. of Cupertino, Calif., won its first-ever award at FOSE for Norton 2000 in the end-user software category. The MX-2700 digital camera from Fuji Photo Film USA Inc. of Elmsford, N.Y., won in the end-user peripherals category. The company won in this category last year, too. Silicon Graphics Inc. took the prize in the technical-user computer category for its 320 Visual Workstation. Seagate Software Inc. of Scotts Valley, Calif. won in the technical software category Crystal Reports 7. Finally, GTE Government Systems Corp. of Needham Heights, Mass., took the honors in the workgroup and departmental software category for InfoWorkSpace. For the awards program, 14 editors judged products in the 13 categories. Each product received ratings for innovation, usability, specifications and value. Judges only rated products in categories they are knowledgeable about. At least five editors reviewed product entries for each category, making their ratings without knowing other judges' scores