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- From: dse@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (donald.s.eaves)
- Subject: Re: Business Week article (what a joke!)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:25:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.022515.1674@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: business week Next
- References: <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <1jjvohINN87h@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
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- In article <1jjvohINN87h@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca writes:
- >In article <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> Mark
- >Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
- >> Anyone read the Business Week article about NeXT yet? Looks grim.
-
- BW did so much spinning on this article, its slanderous.
- Compare the NeXT article to the Borland article on the facing page:
-
- THE FACTS:
- NeXT posts its first profit, has big sales of its hot new NeXTSTEP 486
- product which is two years ahead of the competitors and has a 1992 growth
- that outpaced the workstation market growth.
-
- Borland is loosing market share and revenues, announces a 11 million
- dollar operating loss. is beat to the market by Microsoft and its stock
- is at a 52 week low.
-
- THE PICTURE:
- BW presents an unflattering, candid, off-center, mainly unfocused picture
- of Jobs.
-
- Kahn carefully poses, with an artificial smile, for a great publicity shot.
-
- THE TITLE:
- "NeXTs BLACk BOX MAY BE THE NEXT TO GO"
- (A RUMOR denied by Jobs!!! This title can easily be misunderstood as
- meaning that NeXT is next to go.)
-
- "A BRUISED BORLAND IS UP AND SWINGING"
- (Another rumor, creating quite a different perception.)
-
-
- I think the real problem is, as BW points out, that NeXT doesn't buy ads
- in BW, while its competitors certainly do. To present a positive article
- about NeXT could potentially result in some of those competitors pulling
- ads from BW.
-
- I'm pissed and I'm writing a letter to BW. Maybe if they receive enough
- letters they will publish one in the Reader's report.
-
- Don
- Hypersight Inc.
-