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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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In article <1991Apr4.015311.19714@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

	   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.

It's a start.  I think Sun sold around 180,000 machines last year,
while its closest competitor sold half as many.  NeXT should sell
between 40,000 and 50,000 machines this year.  They will need a lower
priced machine to sell more, and I'm sure that they know that.
However, the people/companies who can spend $5000 on a computer are
also the ones who can afford to pay $500 for a word processor and
another $500 for a spreadsheet.

	   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.

But the NeXT is magical :-).  You write software correctly the first
time :-).

	   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.

Commodore screwed up big time.  They had the machine, but didn't know
what to do with it.  Too bad Jack Tramail couldn't buy the Amiga when
he went to Atari.

	   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.

What do you want NeXT to make public?  What does it matter?

   >NeXT question.

-Mike


