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- From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Business Week article (NeXT to dump hardware)
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 03:09:32 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1993Jan26.182207.198723@zeus.calpoly.edu> mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein)
- writes:
-
- >It is my feeling that a poliferation of NS on various platforms will help
- >not hinder the sale of NeXThardware. As NS becomes more accepted and
- >people decide to go with it as on os then there will shurely be those
- >people(companies) who will pay to get their hardware and os from the same
- >source. If a company has a video problem and has to deal with both NeXT
- >and some bizar 3rd party video card manufacturer to solve it that could
- >represent more time/money that just going to NeXT.
-
- But then, at least in the NS486 market, it should be pretty easy for
- a small clone maker to preload NS486 to their clone with tested
- video cards, ethernet cards and hard disks. And guarantee that things
- work. Loading NS486 to existing clones would be problematic, but
- no one on the selling side is interested in that -- loads of troubles
- and little money to be made.
-
- I would bet that NS486 would definitely eat into NeXT's hardware sales
- because there are enough dealers that bend over backword to differentiate
- themselves from the rest. Even with $600 price the dealers might
- pay for NS486, they can slap together a 66MHz 486 machine that is
- competitive with NeXT hardware, and preload NS486, with satisfaction
- guaranteed or money back.
- Recent prices of local bus 486 machines are amazing.
- And NS486 will sell the top of the line machines for them.
-
- Certainly not all dealers will jump in, but enough will to eat into
- NeXT's hardware sales.
-
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