UPDATE: Full Dell Letter to Shareholders Announcing Special Meeting To Reconvene September 12

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To the Stockholders of Dell Inc.: You are cordially invited to attend a special meeting of the stockholders of Dell Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Dell,” the “Company,” “we,” “our” or “us”), to consider and vote upon the matters set forth in the accompanying notice of special meeting of stockholders. On or about May 31, 2013, we mailed a proxy statement relating to a special meeting of Dell stockholders that we originally scheduled to have been held on July 18, 2013, to consider and vote on a proposal to adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 5, 2013 (the “original merger agreement”), by and among Denali Holding Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Denali Intermediate Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Intermediate”), Denali Acquiror Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intermediate (“Merger Sub” and, taken together with Intermediate and Parent, the “Parent Parties”), and the Company. The parties to the original merger agreement amended the merger agreement on August 2, 2013 by entering into Amendment No. 1 thereto (the original merger agreement, together with Amendment No. 1 thereto and as such amended agreement may be further amended from time to time, the “amended merger agreement”) to, among other things, increase the per share merger consideration from $13.65 per share of Dell's common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), to $13.75 per share of Dell's Common Stock (the “merger consideration”), provide for the Company to pay a special cash dividend of $0.13 per share to stockholders of record as of a date to be determined prior to the effective time of the merger and ensure that the $0.08 per share regular quarterly dividend for the third quarter of the Company's current fiscal year is paid to holders of record as of a date prior to the closing of the merger. In addition, the amendment revises the condition to the closing of the merger (the “unaffiliated vote condition”) that previously required the affirmative vote (in person or by proxy) in favor of the proposal to adopt the merger agreement by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock owned, directly or indirectly, by the “unaffiliated stockholders” referred to below. As revised, the unaffiliated vote condition requires the affirmative vote in favor of the proposal to adopt the merger agreement of the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock owned, directly or indirectly, by the unaffiliated stockholders that are present in person or by proxy at the meeting and are voted for or against the proposal. The unaffiliated stockholders are the Company's stockholders other than the Parent Parties, Michael S. Dell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and certain of his related family trusts, any other officers and directors of the Company or any other person having any equity interest in, or any right to acquire any equity interest in, Merger Sub or any person of which Merger Sub is a direct or indirect subsidiary. Adoption of the amended merger agreement will continue to require the affirmative vote (in person or by proxy) of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock under applicable Delaware law. At the reconvened special meeting on August 2, 2013, the Company adjourned the special meeting, which was initially convened on July 18, 2013, and then adjourned to July 24, 2013 and further adjourned to August 2, 2013, to permit the solicitation of additional votes in favor of the proposal to adopt the amended merger agreement, and to provide its stockholders additional time to (i) consider Amendment No. 1 to the original merger agreement, including the increased merger consideration, the $0.13 per share special cash dividend and the revised unaffiliated vote condition, and (ii) review the accompanying supplement to the Company's definitive proxy statement dated May 30, 2013. The special meeting will be reconvened on September 12, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time at the Dell Round Rock Campus, Building No. 2, Houston-Dallas conference room, 501 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas 78682. The new record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the special meeting is August 13, 2013. Pursuant to the amended merger agreement, Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company (the “merger”), with the Company surviving the merger as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intermediate and each share of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger (other than certain excluded shares and dissenting shares) will be canceled and converted into the right to receive $13.75 in cash, without interest, less any applicable withholding taxes. The following shares of Common Stock will not be entitled to the merger consideration: (i) shares held by any of the Parent Parties (including the shares held by Mr. Dell and certain of his related family trusts which shares will be contributed to Parent prior to the merger), (ii) shares held by the Company or any wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and (iii) shares held by any of the Company's stockholders who are entitled to and properly exercise appraisal rights under Delaware law. In addition, the amended merger agreement provides for the Company to pay a special $0.13 per share cash dividend to holders of record as of a date to be determined prior to the effective time of the merger and ensures that the $0.08 per share regular quarterly dividend for the third quarter of the Company's current fiscal year is paid to holders as of a record date prior to the closing of the merger. The board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) formed a committee (the “Special Committee”) consisting solely of four independent and disinterested directors of the Company to evaluate the merger and other alternatives available to the Company. The Special Committee unanimously determined that the transactions contemplated by the amended merger agreement, including the merger, are fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company's stockholders (other than Mr. Dell and certain of his related family trusts), and unanimously recommended that the Board approve and declare advisable the amended merger agreement, and the transactions contemplated therein, including the merger, and that the Company's stockholders vote for the adoption of the amended merger agreement. Based in part on that recommendation, the Board (i) determined that the transactions contemplated by the amended merger agreement, including the merger, are fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company's stockholders (other than Mr. Dell and certain of his related family trusts), (ii) approved and declared advisable the execution, delivery and performance of the amended merger agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated therein, including the merger and (iii) resolved to recommend that the Company's stockholders vote for the adoption of the amended merger agreement. Accordingly, the Board (without Mr. Dell's participation) recommends that the stockholders of the Company vote “FOR” the proposal to adopt the amended merger agreement. The Board (without Mr. Dell's participation) also recommends that the stockholders of the Company vote “FOR” the proposal to approve, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, the compensation that may become payable to the named executive officers of the Company in connection with the merger, as disclosed in the table under “Special Factors—Interests of the Company's Directors and Executive Officers in the Merger—Quantification of Payments and Benefits—Potential Change of Control Payments to Named Executive Officers Table,” including the associated footnotes and narrative discussion. The actions of the Board were unanimous, except that Mr. Dell did not participate due to his interest in the merger, and one other director was not present at the meeting at which such actions were taken. In considering the recommendation of the Board, you should be aware that some of the Company's directors and executive officers have interests in the merger that are different from, or in addition to, the interests of the stockholders generally. As of August 5, 2013, Mr. Dell and certain of his related family trusts beneficially owned, in the aggregate, 274,434,319 shares of Common Stock (including (i) 1,101,948 shares subject to Company stock options exercisable within 60 days and (ii) 33,389 shares held in Mr. Dell's 401(k) plan), or approximately 15.6% of the total number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, and have agreed with Parent to contribute to Parent, immediately prior to the consummation of the merger, 273,299,383 shares in exchange for common stock of Parent. We urge you to, and you should, read the accompanying proxy supplement in its entirety, including the appendices, because it describes the amended merger agreement and the merger and provides specific information concerning the special meeting and other important information related to the merger. In addition, you may obtain information about us from documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We also urge you, if you have not done so already, to review carefully the definitive proxy statement dated May 30, 2013. A copy of the definitive proxy statement dated May 30, 2013 will be mailed to each stockholder of record as of August 13, 2013 who has not yet been mailed a copy of such definitive proxy statement. Regardless of the number of shares of Common Stock you own, your vote is very important. The merger cannot be completed unless the proposal to adopt the amended merger agreement is approved by the affirmative vote (in person or by proxy) of the holders of (i) at least a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock entitled to vote thereon, as required by Section 251 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) (the “Delaware law vote condition”) and (ii) at least a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock held by stockholders other than the Parent Parties, Mr. Dell and certain of his related family trusts, any other officers and directors of the Company or any other person having any equity interest in, or any right to acquire any equity interest in, Merger Sub or any person of which Merger Sub is a direct or indirect subsidiary, that are voted for or against the proposal to adopt the amended merger agreement (as stated above, we refer to this requirement as the “unaffiliated vote condition”). Amendment No. 1 to the original merger agreement changed the terms of the unaffiliated vote condition. Under the original merger agreement, broker non-votes, abstaining from voting or failing to vote on the proposal to adopt the original merger agreement had the same effect as voting against that proposal for purposes of the unaffiliated vote condition. However, under the amended merger agreement, broker non-votes, abstaining from voting or failing to vote on the proposal to adopt the amended merger agreement will have no effect on the proposal to adopt the amended merger agreement under the unaffiliated vote condition. Therefore, if you wish to vote against the proposal to adopt the amended merger agreement, for purposes of the unaffiliated vote condition you must submit a proxy voting against that proposal, or attend the special meeting and vote against that proposal. For your convenience, we have enclosed a proxy card with this proxy supplement. If you have already voted by proxy in favor of the proposals contained on the proxy card using a properly executed WHITE proxy card or otherwise voted by proxy in favor of such proposals over the Internet or by telephone, you will be considered to have voted in favor of such proposals and do not need to take any action, unless you wish to revoke or change your proxy. If you have already voted by proxy against the proposals contained on the proxy card, you will be considered to have voted against such proposals and do not need to take any action, unless you wish to revoke or change your proxy. However, if you have acquired shares after the original record date, and those shares are held by a bank, broker or other nominee to whom you did not previously issue voting instructions with respect to the special meeting, those newly acquired shares will not be voted unless you follow the instructions on your voting card or otherwise provided by your broker, bank or other nominee for submitting a proxy with respect to those newly acquired shares. Moreover, if you held shares in “street name” through a bank or broker on the original record date, but have acquired shares after the original record date, and you are the stockholder of record of those newly acquired shares, then, whether or not you previously gave a voting instruction with respect to the shares that you held on the original record date, those newly acquired shares will not be voted unless you give a proxy with respect to those shares by completing, signing, dating and returning the enclosed proxy card, by following the instructions on the enclosed proxy card for Internet or telephone submissions or you attend the special meeting and vote in person. If you have not previously voted by proxy or if you wish to revoke or change your proxy, please vote by proxy over the Internet or by telephone, or complete, date, sign and return your WHITE proxy card as soon as possible. If you desire your shares to be voted in accordance with the Board's recommendation, you need only sign, date and return the proxy in the enclosed postage-paid envelope. Otherwise, please mark the proxy to indicate your voting instructions; date and sign the proxy; and return it in the enclosed postage-paid envelope. You also may submit a proxy by using a toll-free telephone number or the Internet. We have provided instructions on the proxy card for using these convenient services. Submitting a proxy will not prevent you from voting your shares in person if you subsequently choose to attend the special meeting. Even if you plan to attend the special meeting in person, we request that you complete, sign, date and return the enclosed proxy and thus ensure that your shares will be represented at the special meeting if you are unable to attend.
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