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- From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
- Subject: The Future of Next, Inc.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.015305.27995@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: ?@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 01:53:05 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- Hi everyone.
-
- This is my "anniversary" post since about 1 year ago, I posted an
- article pointing out that Mr. Job's announcement of a public stock
- offering was really an attempt to raise the value of the stock so that
- those with a vested interest could unload all their (eventually
- worthless) stock. I also pointed out that if Mr. Jobs were smart,
- he would switch the central processor in upcoming Next machines to
- a SPARC chip and would switch manufacturing facilities to someplace
- like Thailand. (By "smart", I mean, "wanting a company that is
- profitable.)
-
- Well, I was laughed off this place. True, I did err about the stock
- announcement; Mr. Jobs did announce that the company _would_ go public
- but _had_ not yet gone public at the time. (I erroneously thought that
- he had already gone public.) Several people pointed out--huffy and puffy
- --that Next was doing fabulously well and should not switch to a SPARC
- chip and that moving manufacturing facilities to Thailand wouldn't
- help a bit.
-
- Think again.
-
- I just read the status of Next, Inc. in the latest issue of the
- Economist. The line in the 1st paragraph reads, approximately,
-
- "Next, Inc. has yet to turn a profit".
-
- At the end of the article, it notes that a high-ranked official had
- jumped ship and moved to Sun Microsystems. Mr. Job laments that
- Sun may yet crush the daylights out of his company.
-
- So, if Mr. Jobs is reading this, I wish him well and again offer the same
- advice. Keep R & D in the USA but move _all_ manufacturing facilities
- to Thailand. For crying out loud, use the Matsushita-designed 64-bit
- SPARC chip. So, what do you care if people laugh because you chose
- the SPARC chip? You will earn enough money to _burn_.
-
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