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- From: bill@mathnx.math.byu.edu (Bill Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Business Week article (what a joke!)
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:19:25 GMT
- Organization: Brigham Young University
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- In article <1993Jan22.022515.1674@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> dse@cbnewsi.cb.att.com
- (donald.s.eaves) writes:
- > In article <1jjvohINN87h@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca writes:
- > >In article <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
- Mark
- > >Crispin <mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> writes:
- > >> Anyone read the Business Week article about NeXT yet? Looks grim.
- >
- > BW did so much spinning on this article, its slanderous.
- > Compare the NeXT article to the Borland article on the facing page:
- >
- > THE FACTS:
- > NeXT posts its first profit, has big sales of its hot new NeXTSTEP 486
- > product which is two years ahead of the competitors and has a 1992 growth
- > that outpaced the workstation market growth.
- >
- > Borland is loosing market share and revenues, announces a 11 million
- > dollar operating loss. is beat to the market by Microsoft and its stock
- > is at a 52 week low.
- >
- > THE PICTURE:
- > BW presents an unflattering, candid, off-center, mainly unfocused picture
- > of Jobs.
- >
- > Kahn carefully poses, with an artificial smile, for a great publicity shot.
- >
- > THE TITLE:
- > "NeXTs BLACk BOX MAY BE THE NEXT TO GO"
- > (A RUMOR denied by Jobs!!! This title can easily be misunderstood as
- > meaning that NeXT is next to go.)
- >
- > "A BRUISED BORLAND IS UP AND SWINGING"
- > (Another rumor, creating quite a different perception.)
- >
- >
- > I think the real problem is, as BW points out, that NeXT doesn't buy ads
- > in BW, while its competitors certainly do. To present a positive article
- > about NeXT could potentially result in some of those competitors pulling
- > ads from BW.
- >
- > I'm pissed and I'm writing a letter to BW. Maybe if they receive enough
- > letters they will publish one in the Reader's report.
- >
- > Don
- > Hypersight Inc.
-
- I hope you do write to BW. Your analysis of the article agrees with
- my own. A big part of the problem is NeXT's advertising budget for
- "general ads". Friends at NeXT say this is not going to change any
- time soon either. But they consider their current strategy for big
- installations of NeXTSTEP to be working well for them. And they are
- not going to turn into a software only company. There will always
- be a black standard. With NS486 and NSHP they will cover a larger
- chunk of the market too, but the best of NS will always dress in
- black first ;-)
- -Bill
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