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- From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: DOOM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.210529.11202@cs.yale.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 21:05:29 GMT
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- In article <92363.122907HARRAPR@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <HARRAPR@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- writes:
-
- > If you doomsayers spent half as much time, and as much brainpower on actually
- > writing NeXT applications and Objects, and perhaps demoing the computer to
- > friends and co-workers, NeXT might be doing better.
-
- Don't make the mistake of thinking there are only two types of people
- posting to this group (doomsayers and yes-men). There are many folks
- in between those polar opposites that consider the discussions
- about legitimate NeXT problems to be important to NeXT's continued
- success. These folks spend plenty of time making contributions to
- NeXT's vision of computing.
-
- > In this newsgroup lukewarm support seems to manifest as doomsaying.
- > I suppose that if NeXT does go under you'll all consider yourselves wise.
- > Well, I will consider you accomplices. No other newsgroup supposedly about
- > using a great technology spends so much effort blathering on and on about
- > mistakes made by the company, lack of applications, etc. etc. etc.
-
- This reminds me of something a NeXT sales rep said to a developer that
- was honest with a customer about some software bugs in NeXTstep 3.0.
- The rep said: "say only good things about NeXT". What bullshit!
-
- Do you think there would be an immanent NeXTstep 3.1 release if the NeXT
- community, lead by several notorious "trouble-makers", hadn't
- screamed at NeXT about the problems of 3.0? NeXT hadn't planned on the
- bug-fix release, but wisely responded to the demands of their paying
- customers. Everyone wins.
-
- > NeXT will never beat Windows. NeXT will never sell more hardware than SUN.
- > But NeXT is respected for vision and delivering on that vision. That can
- > be a very nice niche market. Look at Silicon Graphics. They do very well,
- > even though SUN sells more machines in a month (week?) than SGI does in a
- > year. NeXT can be like that - respected for proven, delivered technology.
-
- Sounds reasonable to me! Now if we could get NeXT and SGI together... ;-)
-
- > So please, if you think NeXT is going under, put your machine for sale in
- > COMP.SYS.NEXT.MARKETPLACE and SHUT UP. Some of us are optimistic, at least
- > cautiously, and hope NeXT will find that niche.
-
- Can't do it, sorry. Gonna keep flaming, but only when I can back
- it up with facts...unlike many of the doomsayers.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette "So this is Christmas,
- Dept MB&B, Yale Univ/HHMI and what have you done?"
- New Haven, CT
- nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXTmail OK)
-