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...this is a two-front war, with a lot of skirmishing also at the lower end of the market. High-powered computing has traditionally relied on the costly, time-consuming R. and D. that makes Sun and IBM legendary. But continuing advances in microprocessor technology enable Intel to sell blazing-fast chips that, when run by Microsoft Windows, allow some manufacturers to sell very fast servers for as little as $2,500. That trend is broadening the market for servers, making them affordable to almost any firm that wants to sell on the Web or manage its inventory better. That...
DELL The world's No. 1 computer manufacturer and No. 1 Internet retailer is now also the leading producer, for the huge U.S. market, of Intel-based servers that sell for less than $100,000. According to research group IDC, 80% of all the servers now sold are based on Intel chips. Michael Dell is a loud advocate of this trend toward standardization. And he is counting on the server and storage business, estimating that within a few years, it, along with notebooks, will account for 70% of Dell's revenues. That server push has helped this year: the company...
...leverage its manufacturing and marketing talent to enable it to deliver the kind of out-of-the-box, high-volume operation that made it dominant in PCs. Its partnerships with database king Oracle and Linux maven Red Hat (Linux is an increasingly popular--and open--alternative to Windows for Intel-based servers) give customers access to powerful options. And in November Dell announced a co-branding arrangement with data-storage king EMC. Although Dell operates mostly at the low end of the market, the idea is to climb steadily toward faster and more expensive machines as the technology arrives...
Dell's big drawback: it's still a box company. The Texas titan relies almost completely on Intel and Microsoft for its technology, whereas all its competitors have hefty research facilities of their...
Dell Computer, based in Round Rock, Texas, near Austin, builds its servers around standard Intel chips and Windows software--a standard that smothers innovation, according to competitors of those companies. Michael Dell retorts that "what standards do is drive out inefficiencies. Dell is in the business of productivity, and that's a good business." He adds that "there's plenty of innovation within the standards." Even if his idea of a snazzy innovation is chopping a foot off the height of his servers so that they fit more easily through customers' doors...