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To: Sig who wrote (114430)	4/6/1999 9:31:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

You Texasan have way with words. I still use you all from living in Texas for three years. Greg

To: Sig who wrote (114430)	4/6/1999 10:29:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Hi Sig ring this up will you please-Burlington Coat Factory chooses Dell. BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY CHOOSES DELL FOR STRATEGIC LINUX ROLLOUT ROUND ROCK, Texas, -- April 6, 1999 -- Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL), the world's leading direct computer systems company, today announced an agreement to deliver a large retail Linux installation to Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation. Burlington's 264 stores nationwide will manage their day-to-day business on Dell® desktop PCs custom configured to run the open-source Linux operating system. Burlington will run Red Hat Software Inc.'s version of Linux on 1,250 Dell OptiPlex® PCs for office management, to administer its Baby Registry and to handle back-office functions such as shipping and receiving. Dell will factory-install Red Hat Linux software through its DellPlus service on the OptiPlex GX1 computers, giving Burlington the ease and efficiency of PCs that arrive ready to use. In a separate announcement today, Dell and Red Hat Software, Inc. expanded their joint efforts to make Linux a success in the corporate market. Dell is now the first major systems vendor to offer Red Hat Linux pre-installed on selected Dell Precision WorkStationsTM and Dell PowerEdge® servers. Dell also plans to offer Red Hat Linux pre-installed on Dell OptiPlex desktops during the first half of 1999. Additionally, Dell has made a minority equity investment in Red Hat...... dell.com