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Dell's vice president for server platforms Forrest Norrod said his company was already shipping some systems to companies, including Facebook, that are based on the social network's new designs.

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The minimum order to do business with the unit: a purchase of around 500 to 1,000 new servers every three months, says Dell Vice President Forrest Norrod.

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The coolest event of the year is just around the corner – the fourth annual SegwayFest 2006 will be held in Long Beach, CA with keynotes from Dean Kamen, Steve Wozniak, and Segway CEO Jim Norrod.

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Norrod has made one of his top priorities as CEO to groom the company for an initial public offering or other liquidity event within the next few years.

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Norwood and Harwood became Norrod in sound and Harrod in spelling; and the name of Currier, whether with any reference or not to the French

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Having open source does not hurt companies like Dell, Norrod said.

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"We have always been about open standards," said Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of server programs at Dell, who said Dell has already used some Open Compute elements in its motherboards.

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But Norrod said today that the Data Center Solutions team launched in 2006 with a less rigid goal - seven wins out of 10 attempts - in hopes of having the leeway to take risks and deliver big innovations for the world's largest cloud computing providers and hyperscale data center operators.

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According to Norrod, however, "Operations folks in the data centers said, 'You're moving my cheese too fast, disrupting my operational playbook.'"

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GigaOM's Structure conference event in San Francisco, Norrod said Dell started out talking to

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