1.  Analysts said the executive committee, with Rosen acting as interim CEO, faces daunting challenges in addition to responding to growing acceptance of the direct model.

2.  As always, Dell officials credited the strength of their direct sales model, in which the company bypasses distributors and dealers and builds each computer to order.

3.  But his most direct model was the Ensemble Aleph, a Parisian chamber group.

4.  Experts say Compaq would have a hard time moving to the kind of direct model employed by Dell.

5.  In the direct model, pioneered by Dell and others, customers contact the PC maker directly.

6.  The direct model eliminates reseller mark-ups, allows us to have less inventory and to pass the savings along from component reductions.

7.  Our direct model enables us to offer them a very attractive package which combines good pricing and the latest PC technologies available in the market.

8.  Chu said the direct selling model was still in its infancy in Asia, but was gaining popularity.

9.  The advantage of the direct model is that we do not hold any inventory because we build and assemble everything specifically to order.

10.  The company claimed that with this move, it is the first direct PC vendor to extend the direct model into the retail marketing arena.