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- From: brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff Brunkhorst)
- Subject: Re: Not (was: NeXT Ships NeXTSTEP Release 3.0)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.173850.14879@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation, Rochester MN. Campus
- References: <60246@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 17:38:50 GMT
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- In article <60246@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
- > I was told Wednesday by a supervisor in the orders dept at NeXT that
- > the good news was that 3.0 was shipping (I had that it had stopped) and
- > that the stoppage had something to do with the license agreement that
- > was now resolved.
- >
- > So it is possible that:
- > the 3.0 shipping delay is old news that just reached the net and
- > that it is now finally shipping. just after I was told this, NeXT 3.0
- > press releases appeared on the net.
-
- Well, let's get this in ascending date order. My original post was after a
- phone call to the shipper Thursday morning, Sept 10, 1992. It appears that
- NeXT had yet to tell the shipper about such 'good' news. At this point, I tend
- to believe the shipper more than NeXT.
-
-
- Even if it is old news, it is false advertising to claim one thing and do
- another. This is not good for NeXT, who in the past has been beaten up
- on it's sales totals being unreliable. NeXT does owe the 'waiting faithful'
- an explanation why 2nd Day air shipments are taking at least 2 weeks or
- more for the majority of their customers.
-
- I, like Art, have a small but critical project, waiting for 3.0 deployment.
- I waited a week for 3.0, causing my user base a loss of a weeks productivity,
- thinking I could save me and them the pain of 'upgrade' (these users are new to
- the NeXT platform). Now I have lost that week, and I will lose another week
- installing 3.0 at our remote (like 1000's of miles away) sites, most likely
- later next month. Mine is only a time/materials loss, but my guess is guys
- like Art and other small developers/VARs etc are really hurt by this in terms
- of money in their pocket. For what I can tell, these are the people that
- really 'sell' NeXT to the new markets, and causing them loss will likely come
- back and cause NeXT loss.
-
- Finally, most academic computing facilities I know try to avoid systems
- upgrades during the school year. This may cause 3.0 to sit on the shelf
- until quarter/semester break. More bad press, in one of NeXT's strategic
- markets.
-
- -geoff
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