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- From: bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: NeXT's vs. mainframes -- sales of 6000 machines
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.211114.3347@pages.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 21:11:14 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.201713.22702@gordian.com>
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- In article <1992Jul21.201713.22702@gordian.com> bruce@gordian.com (Bruce
- Hafford) writes:
- > > I have a friend who is in a position to help make a 6,000 person
- > > company (every person has a computer, thus 6,000 machines! big
- > > big deal!) switch from their IBM mainframes over to NeXTs.
- >
- > Wait a minute - there's no way EVERYONE in the company
- > needs a NeXT. If you oversell them on it and it turns into a
- > management and user mess, they'll be rather un-sold on
- > NeXT's. I'd look at what people really need their machines for
- > first - if 3000 plain mono Xstations and 3000 NeXT's are the way to
- > go, then that's a better solution than more power....
-
- I dunno...everyone in _our_ company has a NeXT. Of course, there aren't 6,000
- of us (yet). ;-) ..bruce..
-
- Bruce F. Webster
- Director, BRI
- bwebster@pages.com
- #import <pages/disclaimer.h>
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