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- From: thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark Thomsen)
- Subject: New Years Wishes
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- Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 19:37:17 GMT
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- In 1993 I hope to see
-
- - a release of NeXTSTEP 3 that is robust and nearly bug free
-
- - a version of NeXTSTEP for the 486, selling at six figure rates
-
- - a delightfully useable and affordable NeXTSTEP portable
-
- - a very fast hardware platform shipping with NeXTSTEP
-
- - coherent vertical off-the-shelf product suites from third parties
- (e.g., if I want to set up a complete, interoperable documentation
- shop I can buy all the pieces and it all just works together)
-
- - better acceptance of NeXTSTEP as a users choice (not just programmers)
-
- - a plan for NeXTSTEP on all workstation-class platforms
-
- - updates to Improv, WordPerfect, Illustrator, and other major
- products into better NeXTSTEP applications
-
- - signs of NeXT, Inc.'s profitability and perhaps even IPOing
-
- - more shipping and less announcing a year early
-
- At this point the major innovations - OOP for real world, NeXTmail, DPS,
- graphical UI construction, better interoperability in client end, more seemless
- UI - are ready for prime time. NeXT should continue to innovate, but it is time
- to separate that from the innovative product that has matured a bit. Getting
- NeXTSTEP onto more desktops is the best thing NeXT can do for the computing
- industry.
-
- I don't want to be pointing at other stuff in five years and say "I was working
- with the NeXT technology that their product finally captured". Innovation can
- continue and eventually get onto the shipping products in the future. But
- holding up the process of converting mainstream buyers with more innovation
- does all of us - potential users, current users, current developers, NeXT - a
- disservice.
-
- In 1993 I want to see that corner turned, from the hot innovation to the hot
- selling product.
-
- Mark R. Thomsen
-
- Merry Christmas!
-