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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Subject: Re: NeXT's commitment to academe
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.022706.23128@ni.umd.edu>
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- References: <SIMMONS.92Sep12121736@rigel.neep.wisc.edu> <1992Sep13.013548.24221@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 02:27:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep13.013548.24221@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:
-
- >Peter van Cuylenberg recently told me that NeXT had identified three
- >distinct markets (direct corporate sales including government,
- >dealers/VARs/VADs/system integrators, and academe), and that NeXT would be
- >reorganizing its sales force to explicitly reflect these three different
- >markets.
-
- So what? When and if this translates to support for academic
- customers like I've come to expect from the likes of DEC and Sun for
- their UNIX platforms, this will mean something. Right now, I consider
- this recorganzation to be explained by entropy or brownian motion.
- Heat and no light.
-
- > Indeed, actions speak louder than words.
-
- Yeah, when I get my reported bugs in NeXT's software fixed, these
- actions will mean something.
-
- louie
-