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- From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl
- Subject: Re: the REAL problem is...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.210958.1376@rna.indiv.nluug.nl>
- Sender: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda)
- Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
- References: <BzoHro.2tw@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:09:58 GMT
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- In article <BzoHro.2tw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- writes:
- > Chuck Waltrip writes
- > > But NeXT's only real asset is its (diminishing) head start in
- > > the OOP arena.
- >
- > I agree; I don't believe that significant numbers of people are
- > migrating to, have migrated to or are starting with NeXTSTEP. By
- > 'significant', I mean that NeXT, Inc.'s profits haven't shown enough
- > growth. I'd say that if the people with money are truly interested in
- > OOP, then they'll wait until it's available from Microsoft or Taligent.
- > I think it's another case of the masses saying, "What we've been doing
- > and what we're doing now is working for us, so why change to something
- > else small like NeXTSTEP?"
- >
- > I think if NeXT realized that developers are not where the money is,
- > they'd have a more profitable NeXT hardware investment.
- >
- > I think that users are the key to the success of the NeXT. Users tell
-
- Well, not quite. IBM tried to to it that way with the original OS/2 stuff. It
- failed miserably, because of lack of software.
-
- What NeXT is trying to do is copy the original succesful Apple scheme: edu - niches
- - corporations - mass market. They lack the resources Apple had originally from the
- succesful Apple II, which makes the NeXT project a 'little' bit more difficult.
- --
- Gerben Wierda Tel. (+31) 35 833539
- "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
- From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".
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