home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!prism!gt2186a
- From: gt2186a@prism.gatech.EDU (COBIA,FRANK NAYLOR)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Business Week article (NeXT to dump hardware)
- Message-ID: <81467@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 21:01:32 GMT
- References: <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> <1993Jan22.081439.24884@btree.uucp>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Lines: 32
-
- In article <1993Jan22.081439.24884@btree.uucp> bly@btree.uucp (Roger Bly) writes:
- >In article <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
- >>Anyone read the Business Week article about NeXT yet? Looks grim.
- >
- >Really looks like Steve is going to have to dump the hardware business
- >to keep NeXT and NeXTStep going. With deals in the works with Compaq,
- >HP, etc. It looks like NeXT will be a software company by the end of the year.
- >But of course, software is where all the value/money is!
-
- I don't understand why everyone wants NeXT to drop hardware. NeXT turned a
- profit. As long as they can sell the hardware at a profit why drop it?
-
- Several people have suggested that the software ports will take all of their
- resources but there are two problems with that argument.
-
- 1) If the software ports are going to create so much revenue for NeXT then
- they can just hire more programmers. After all they will have all the new
- found money right?
-
- 2) If they abandon a profitable hardware line then what will they use to
- finance all the programmers working on software? If they drop the hadware
- then they will just have that much less revenue.
-
- Am I missing something or do you just hate NeXT hardware?
-
- Frank
-
- --
- COBIA,FRANK NAYLOR
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
- uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!prism!gt2186a
- Internet: gt2186a@prism.gatech.edu
-