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- From: bly@btree.uucp (Roger Bly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Business Week article (NeXT to dump hardware)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.081439.24884@btree.uucp>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 08:14:39 GMT
- References: <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
- Organization: Brooktree Corporation
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- In article <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
- >Anyone read the Business Week article about NeXT yet? Looks grim.
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- Really looks like Steve is going to have to dump the hardware business
- to keep NeXT and NeXTStep going. With deals in the works with Compaq,
- HP, etc. It looks like NeXT will be a software company by the end of the year.
- But of course, software is where all the value/money is!
-
- What a strange industry this has become:
- - IBM predicts 60% of it's revenue will soon come from software & services.
- - Wang is dropping hardware and focusing on software & services.
- - NeXT is dropping hardware to become an operating system company.
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- NeXTStep/Mach should be good competition for NT. Esp. if Compaq ships it
- on their 486 PCs.
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- -Roger Bly
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