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Dell Concludes Annual Meeting of Shareholders
[August 12, 2010]

Dell Concludes Annual Meeting of Shareholders


ROUND ROCK, Texas --(Business Wire)--

Dell (News - Alert) completed its annual shareholders' meeting today with the election of all director candidates and shareholder approval of an amendment of certificate of incorporation to eliminate supermajority vote provisions.

Prior to adjourning the meeting on July 16, 2010, in order to distribute supplemental proxy information to shareholders, Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, and Brian Gladden, chief financial officer, provided business updates on the company's solutions-led organization and its focus on driving enterprise solutions and services that enable the company to drive leadership across critical new areas of IT and grow its operating income and cash flow over time.

In formal business at the meeting, shareholders:



Presentations and other information for the shareholders' meeting can be found at: www.dell.com/investors.

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Statements in this press release that relate to future results and events (including statements about Dell's future financial and operating performance and strategic focus) are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are based on Dell's current expectations. Actual results and events in future periods may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements because of a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors, including: weak global economic conditions and instability in financial markets; weak economic conditions and additional regulation affecting Dell's financial services activities; intense competition; Dell's cost-cutting measures; Dell's ability to effectively manage periodic product and services transitions; Dell's ability to effectively manage the growth of its distribution capabilities and add to its product and services offerings; Dell's ability to achieve favorable pricing from its vendors; Dell's reliance on third-party suppliers for product components, including reliance on several single-sourced or limited-sourced suppliers; disruptions in component or product availability; successful implementation of Dell's acquisition strategy; Dell's ability to generate substantial non-U.S. net revenue; Dell's product, customer, and geographic sales mix, and seasonal sales trends; Dell's ability to access the capital markets; loss of government contracts; customer terminations of, or pricing changes in, services contracts, or Dell's failure to perform as it anticipates at the time it enters into services contracts; Dell's ability to hedge effectively its exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates; counterparty default; unfavorable results of legal proceedings; Dell's ability to obtain licenses to intellectual property developed by others on commercially reasonable and competitive terms; expiration of tax holidays or favorable tax rate structures, or unfavorable outcomes in tax audits and other compliance matters; Dell's ability to maintain strong internal controls; changing environmental and safety laws; the effect of armed hostilities, terrorism, natural disasters, and public health issues; information technology and manufacturing infrastructure disruptions or breaches of data security; Dell's ability to attract, retain, and motivate key personnel; and other risks and uncertainties discussed in Dell's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal year ended January 29, 2010. Dell assumes no obligation to update its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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