By 1995, with sales of nearly $3.5 billion, the company was the world’s leading direct
marketer of personal computers and one of the top five PC vendors in the world. In 1996, Dell
supplemented its direct mail and telephone sales by offering its PCs via the Internet at dell.com.
By 2001, Dell ranked first in global market share and number one in the United States for
shipments of standard Intel architecture servers. The company changed its name to Dell Inc