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- From: lmccullo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael McCulloch)
- Subject: Re: Business Week article (NeXT to dump hardware)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.154717.22330@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 15:47:17 GMT
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- In article <C1I5xq.BGB@utstat.toronto.edu>, philip@utstat.toronto.edu
- Philip McDunnough wrote:
- >
- >I'm not saying that NS486 will fail. It will sell as a niche product. However,
- >it would be foolish for NeXT to give up making hardware and to become a
- >software vendor. That would really be the final straw.
- >
- >There's no reason to stop making NeXT hardware.
- >
-
- No reason other than market share, profit margin, and sales volume. I
- would think that selling a shrink-wrapped OS would be less capital
- intensive and offer more margin in the long run than producing HW.
- Of course, _I_ don't own/run a company that does either. :-)
-
- Michael McCulloch
- Huntsville, AL
-