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To: DellFan who wrote (123638)	5/10/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

'Dell' now used as a verb!! 'Be a Deller rather than a Delleee' DF: Ok that is it,I need at least a 'hunrid' for my shares now ,nothing less will do.<vbg> Thanks that could be the one. Did you notice, the article says they have started using 'Dell' as a verb now at Harvard B-school? ===================== ........The Outlook Cambridge, Mass. Most executives -- barring any lingering Luddites -- know that the Internet could change almost everything. That has become the conventional wisdom. What they want to know is how. For an answer, many are looking to Michael Dell of Dell Computer Corp., the leading architect of the Internet-enabled, thoroughly digital business enterprise. They believe that what Mr. Dell has done to the computer industry, someone else will do to autos, chemicals, banking and plenty of other sectors. =================== "....That was the starting point one day last week, when 15 executives, plus a few consultants and professors, spent a day holed up in the faculty lounge here at Harvard University. As they talked among themselves about the opportunities and threats posed by the inexorable rise of the Internet, they began using the word "Dell" as a verb. They concluded that Compaq Computer Corp., whose chief executive was forced out April 18, is suffering partly because it has been "Delled" -- outflanked by cheaper products from a thoroughly digitized Dell...." ===================== "You want to be the Deller rather than the Dellee of your industry," said Ted Rybeck, chairman of Cambridge consultancy Benchmarking Partners Inc.