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- From: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
- Subject: NeXT Computer, Inc. (was Re: Business Week article)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.013935.3249@hot.com>
- Sender: robertl@hot.com
- Reply-To: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
- Organization: Hot Technologies
- References: <1993Jan26.182207.198723@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:39:35 GMT
- Lines: 71
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- It doesn't make any sense for NeXT to abandon their hardware product
- line nor is it something they can just do without serious perhaps
- fatal injury. What is really happening is that NeXTSTEP is going
- head to head against Windows NT and it's going to get bloody.
- Fortunately, NeXT happens to have great ammunition. NeXT's
- competitors would love it if NeXT dropped it's hardware line.
-
- Realistically, NeXT has and should continue to put the "emphasis" on
- software and keep relatively competitive hardware. In other words,
- they don't have lead in price/performance hardware but their software
- has to be killer. Furthermore, I expect NeXT's hardware line to go
- high-end leaving the low-end to other hardware manufacturers.
-
- BTW - Take this on good authority: If you have any doubts about NeXT,
- stay tuned - you're in for a big surprise.
-
- Robert La Ferla
- Hot Technologies
-
- In article <1993Jan26.182207.198723@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein) writes:
- > In article <C1ArLs.A1C@utstat.toronto.edu>
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
- > (Philip McDunnough) writes:
- > > In article <1993Jan22.081439.24884@btree.uucp> bly@btree.uucp
- (Roger
- > Bly) writes:
- > >
- > > [ ]
- > > >
- > > >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!
- > >
- > > In my opinon dropping out of the hardware business would be a
- terrible
- > > mistake and a very real setback in computing to those who don't
- only
- > care
- > > about speed.
- > >
- > > [ ]
- > >
- > > Philip McDunnough
- > > University of Toronto
- > > philip@utstat.toronto.edu
- >
- > 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.
- > --
- > -Mont
- >
- > NeXTmail OK :-)
- > President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group)
- > mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu
-