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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: End of NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.040523.2598@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <72148@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:05:23 GMT
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- In article <72148@cup.portal.com> kent_stuart_smith@cup.portal.com writes:
- >introduced, there will be a big push for that product that will obliterate
- >NS '486,as well as Mac networking. It won't matter that Windows NT is a secon
- >d rate product- it will be a huge success just because Microsoft is behind it
-
-
- Marketing can only do so much. From what I've seen of the NT beta,
- it is *very* good. It is slow, but it is *very* stable, and a charm
- to install and deal with. And that's a beta. Still, I think MS
- bit off more than it can chew--while NT is very good and very
- stable, it is also very buggy (mostly related to the DOS and Win16
- subsystems--NT itself is pretty much finished).
-
-
- >Its much like Ford Motor Co. in the early part of the century. I fear that
- >NeXT will be be eventually bought by the Japanese. They may be able to
-
-
- Pardon, but doesn't Canon already own more than 50% of NeXT?
-
- >eventually use NS in a successful fight with Microsoft in the future. I also
- >fear that Jobs won't be able to hold out forever- remember, he's lost a lot
- > of his fortune in NeXT, as well as his credibility in the computer world. It
- > took me back to see the cheap prices of NeXT machines offered by Spherical
- >(even though they are used). Watch out for the prices, though when NeXT is a
- >wholly owned Japanese company...
-
- The day NeXT becomes a wholly Japanese owned company is the
- day I start rabidly campaigning for Windows NT. Not that NeXT
- has exactly been the users friend ("Hey, let's design our
- machines without parallel ports, sell a brainless laser engine
- and paper feed in a box and make it impossible for users to
- buy much more powerful printers for themselves!!" -- re:
- NeXT $1000+ "dumb" printer vs. just about any printer in the
- last 4 years), and not to be xenophobic or paranoid or anything,
- but we are already in a pretty bad way and don't need our software
- industry's jewels going overseas as well.
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- --
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- Rule 1: "Don't have more children than you can feed."
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