"When you're providing products that people want and need, and doing so at a price better than anyone else, you can call us what you want," Dell spokesman Mike Maher said.
By eliminating the middleman, Dell has been able to expand its share of the PC market profit pool from about 1.4 percent in 1990 to almost 16 percent last year, according to Bear Stearns.
Just last week, it regained the No. 1 spot in worldwide PC sales, after briefly losing the crown to the newly merged HP.
Dell has kept its overall costs down, and spends only about $500 million in research and development, compared with HP's $4 billion.
Maher argues that there is "no reason for us to spend more money to do things that our partners are already doing."
Dell's rivals counter that the company is nothing more than a reseller of other firms' technologies.
"I have never known a computer company proud about not spending money on technology," said Shahin Khan, Sun's chief competitive officer.
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He, he, he, he. In 10 years there, will be only 4 computer companys, Dell, IBM, Apple, and of course all the "white-boxers". The rest will be Chapter 13 BK.
Peter
By eliminating the middleman, Dell has been able to expand its share of the PC market profit pool from about 1.4 percent in 1990 to almost 16 percent last year, according to Bear Stearns.
Just last week, it regained the No. 1 spot in worldwide PC sales, after briefly losing the crown to the newly merged HP.
Dell has kept its overall costs down, and spends only about $500 million in research and development, compared with HP's $4 billion.
Maher argues that there is "no reason for us to spend more money to do things that our partners are already doing."
Dell's rivals counter that the company is nothing more than a reseller of other firms' technologies.
"I have never known a computer company proud about not spending money on technology," said Shahin Khan, Sun's chief competitive officer.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/10/26/BU209451.DTL
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He, he, he, he. In 10 years there, will be only 4 computer companys, Dell, IBM, Apple, and of course all the "white-boxers". The rest will be Chapter 13 BK.
Peter
