Dell Computer is to offer dealers unbranded (or "white box") PCs for resale, moving beyond is "sell direct" origins, according to a Wall Street Journal article followed up here. "After years of deriding personal-computer dealers as costly middlemen, Dell Computer Corp. is poised to begin recruiting these dealers to sell its PCs, marching directly onto the turf long cherished by Hewlett-Packard Co. and International Business Machines Corp," says the WSJ piece, but the full text is available to subscribers only.
Dell may go to dealers
Dell Computer is to offer dealers unbranded (or "white box") PCs for resale, moving beyond is "sell direct" origins, according to a Wall Street Journal article followed up here. "After years of deriding personal-computer dealers as costly middlemen, Dell Computer Corp. is poised to begin recruiting these dealers to sell its PCs, marching directly onto the turf long cherished by Hewlett-Packard Co. and International Business Machines Corp," says the WSJ piece, but the full text is available to subscribers only.