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The High-Volume Model (TechWeb)

Tech Web talks to Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computer. "Customers are looking for new approaches. "It's not going to be, 'Well, we're just going to do what we did two years ago and just pile more bricks on the wheelbarrow, doing the old stuff,'" Dell says. He cites a chief technology officer from a large investment bank who's spending just 3% of what the bank spent last year for another vendor's proprietary server hardware; the rest of the budget is going for hundreds of Dell servers running Linux."
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