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- From: terry@squid9.cuc.ab.ca (Terry Wilcox)
- Subject: Re: The Future of Next, Inc.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.165047.8180@squid9.cuc.ab.ca>
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- Organization: Not Really, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec27.015305.27995@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 16:50:47 GMT
- Lines: 75
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- In article <1992Dec27.015305.27995@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
- > 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.)
- >
-
- Somehow I doubt that your predictions will ever be taken seriously. If you
- really knew so much, you would have your own multi-million dollar company and
- you would be charging for advice.
-
- > 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.
- >
-
- Thailand wouldn't help a bit. NeXT would merely get stuck with the image of
- child-prostitution promoters. And look at the current round of protectionism
- rising in the States. NeXT would be crushed by tariffs if it manufactured in
- Thailand. It's better off staying where it is or moving to Canada or Mexico
- (NAFTA makes the two attractive).
-
- > Think again.
-
- I just did. It still doesn't make sense to sell the factory (at a loss) and
- move offshore (especially Thailand).
-
- > 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".
- >
-
- Since NeXT is a privately owned company, it doesn't have to release numbers to
- anyone. I wonder where the Economist got its facts?
-
- > 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 Bud Tribble left. Big deal. We all know about it. If you read the newsgroups
- more often than once a year, you would realize this is old news. Your once a
- year posting means you miss most of the news generated over the year.
-
- > 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_.
-
- I still don't get it. NeXT hires professionals whose sole purpose is to make
- sure NeXT isn't wasting money. Along comes some nobody with free advice. Should
- Steve:
-
- a) listen to trained professionals
- b) listen to some nobody
- c) none of the above.
-
- Terry Wilcox
- --
- Terry Wilcox | 'Next to the originator of a good sentence
- terry@squid9.cuc.ab.ca | is the first quoter of it.'
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