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- From: uglmiller@cc.memphis.edu
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- Subject: Re: Jack Tramiel
- Date: 15 Apr 96 20:05:08 -0500
- Organization: The University of Memphis
- Message-ID: <1996Apr15.200508@msuvx1.memphis.edu>
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- In article <4kufo0$1tj@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de>, ulim@coli.uni-sb.de (Ulrich Mayring) writes:
- > lucifer@mpx.com.au (Max Devlin) writes:
- >
- >>Steve Jobs was reponsible for the LISA, forerunner of the MAC. It was
- >>a financial disaster, non-seller and demoralised staff working on the
- >>IIe. The best thing he did was bring in Scully from Pepsi and the
- >>best thing Scully did was kick out Jobs. He had no idea how to run a
- >>mature Billion dollar company.
- >
- > Well, Steve Jobs also was responsible for the Mac, without him the Mac
- > would not be here today. And he began pushing the Mac, when he realized
- > the Lisa wasn't better, only twice as expensive to produce.
- >
- > Other than that, I'd agree with your assessment. Steve Jobs is a
- > visionary, but I'm not sure about his capabilities to run a company. Then
- > again, I'm not sure about mine either, so what do I know ;-)
- >
- > There's a good book about Jobs out there, by a guy called Jeffrey S.
- > Young.
- >
- > Ulrich
- > --
- > RL[tm]: Ulrich (Uli) Mayring *** IRC: ulim
- > ulim@freebsd.first.gmd.de *** http://coli.uni-sb.de/~ulim/
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- Last I heard NeXT was doing OK again, and Pixar goes without saying...
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