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Since founding Dell Computer in his Texas dorm room in 1984, Michael Dell has steadily, inexorably grown his company into the largest PC manufacturer in the world. The firm, based in Austin, Texas, has overtaken the box business's best-known makers-IBM, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard among them-by executing its unorthodox, build-to-order manufacturing formula. Dell Computer isn't known for product innovation. It wins by being efficient, relentlessly so. In the competitive and increasingly commoditized computer industry, Dell's cherub-faced founder and CEO may be the closest thing there is to an irresistible force...
...zero in 1998 to 4.4%. That may not sound impressive, but Dell has eclipsed Compaq and is pressing IBM for the top foreign-brand position. In the lucrative segment for corporate server computers, Dell has risen to fifth spot with an 11% share, behind Legend, IBM, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard. "Everyone always predicts our failure," says Richard Ward, Dell's vice president of China, "and everywhere we go we keep proving them wrong...
...Witness the carnage after the sharp, unexpected crash on corporate I.T. spending late in 2000: losses convinced IBM to all but abandon in-house PC manufacturing by farming assembly out to subcontractors. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are trying to merge. Dell was hurt by the downturn, too. The company laid off 1,700 workers last year, its first redundancies ever. But it still managed to increase sales by 18.3% in 2001, showing a profit of $2.1 billion...
...Crimson will also be bolstered by the return to the lineup of sohomores Kenny Turano and Dennis Packard, who were both absent from Saturday’s win over Brown. Freshman Noah Welch and sophomore Tim Pettit, who have had a week to recuperate as well, should be closer to 100 percent than last weekend, when they both played slightly injured...
...Michael T. C. Packard...