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To: stockman_scott who wrote (124206)	5/12/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: BBG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

More comments from MD's speech today... Dell is certainly practicing what it preaches. In the chairman's 45-minute speech today, Dell doled out statistic after statistic about his company's successes on the Web. A sample: 24 percent of the company's support is handled online. Dell receives 50,000 e-mail messages a month from customers. It receives 100,000 order-status-requests a month. Dell is the largest commerce site on the Web. Online traffic has increased 11 times since last year. Online revenue has increased 14 times since last year. The company is pulling in $100 million in revenue a week from online sales. And more than 25 percent of the company's overall revenue is derived from online sales (Dell wants that number to grow to 50 percent within a couple of years.) But there were lighter moments in the keynote. When asked by an audience member what gets him up in the morning, a thoughtful Dell replied, "Well, beating IBM, beating Compaq, and beating HP." BBG