[Am-info] Gateway Official Hits Microsoft Licensing In Testimony

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.03.26 09:06 AM, John Poltorak typed: ============

>> Outsourced?  That's interesting.  Who'd they outsource to and do they make 
>> money?
>
>I'm not sure how true that is... AFAICR IBM signed some big deal with DELL 
>a few years ago to provide components so that you could consider that 
>DELLs were now rebadged IBM PCs...

    Acer is doing assembly of some IBM systems. IBM's Dell deal was just 
for some components, as I recall, not entire systems.


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