In March, Dell Computer surprised many in the industry by acquiring boutique computer manufacturer Alienware of Miami, Florida. As we reported at the time, the purchase was a way for Dell to increase its stake in the high-performance segment of the market, where it was losing out to increased competition from HP, IBM and Apple. At the time, Alienware had already begun to branch out from its core market—top-of-the-line gaming computers—with notebooks, workstations and servers. The Dell acquisition gives many corporate customers a new reason to consider Alienware as a vendor. In my experience, they should.
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--RSN