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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 01:53:11 GMT

In article <n9bG2xgg1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>The NeXT is selling well.  They are in the $5000 market.  You just
>don't sell as many machines there.  Commodore has sold more machines
>than Sun too, but most people would buy stock in Sun.
>
	20,000 machines isn't so hot, actually. It certainly
isn't enought to keep the company afloat, nor will it generate
enough sales to keep ANY software houses from the big-world
happy. WordPerfect and Lotus will turn back unless sales pick up,
as no matter what Steve Jobs wants, they want money.
	And despite the claims that Lotus couldn't do this on
anything but the NeXT environment, they will soon port it to
MS Windows and probably XWindows/Unix. I seriously doubt that
developing on the NeXT and then porting is CHEAPER than just
developing on the destination machine.
	Jobs probably promised these companies a rose garden.
They will soon be disillusioned. Of course, CBM did the same
thing back in 1985, and many were soon disillusioned.
	As to buying stock, as I mentioned before Commodore has
been given "Strong Buy" status by a major Wall Street analyst
firm. That, combined with very strong sales over the second half
of 1990, have resulted in the stock quadrupling in the past 9
months (BTW, a round of applause to those with the vision and
money to buy in at $4/share!) How's NeXT stock doing? That's
right, they are afraid to make things public.

>NeXT question.

	Arggggghhhhh!!! 8-)
>
>-Mike
>


	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.
