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- From: brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (Brad Nelson)
- Subject: Re: more on why NeXT has not earned much credibility
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.042817.11151@raven.uucp>
- Sender: brad@raven.uucp (Brad Nelson)
- References: <92Sep16.000354.17602@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 04:28:17 GMT
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- In article <92Sep16.000354.17602@acs.ucalgary.ca> bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca
- (Blake Stone) writes:
- > > 1) Officially, 3.0 is NOT YET SHIPPING. They said `it is
- > > possible that some people got early copies, but we are not
- > > shipping until later this week.' In other words, certain
- > > high-profile customers got their copies special to give the
- > > appearance of 3.0 shipping.
- >
- > Hello? This has GOT to be wrong. Virtually everyone [ ... ]
-
- It *IS* wrong, along with most of the rest of Crispin's post.
-
- > The University of Alberta has received at least 30 copies for
- > students, staff etc... not just campus consultants.
-
- U of A got >100 copies on about Sep 9th, one of which was mine,
- ordered with the drive bundle in June. I've had the drive
- for a month.
-
- > NeXT delivered with an acceptable delay. Having to run an
- > additional beta period for a major product, causing a two month
- > delay in shipping, is not cause for concern. If anything, it is
- > unusually prompt. Compare Mac System 7.
-
- There are lots more comparisons like that. NeXT is one of the
- better companies I've dealt with in this respect. Find me one
- company, anywhere, that has delivered a major OS release exactly
- on time. Next was ~2 months late with this one, which is *MUCH*
- better than the industry as a whole does.
-
- -Brad brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
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