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- From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: The Future of Next, Inc.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.063606.25199@cs.yale.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
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- Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <1992Dec27.015305.27995@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:36:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.015305.27995@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- 1. NeXT is a privately held company and has not released any financial
- information. Anything you read is pure speculation.
-
- 2. The "high-ranked official" that left NeXT left after a vote of
- "no confidence" by his group members.
-
- 3. Sun has been losing some *tasty* sales to NeXT ;-)
-
- 4. We dig this fluff in comp.sys.next.advocacy, so let's move
- this budding flame-fest over there!
-
- --
- Nathan Janette
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- Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
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