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In article <1992Nov12.112919.1683@proponent.com> Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com> writes:
>	SMCC INTRODUCES COLOR RISC WORKSTATION PRICED LESS THAN A PC
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My own sense in all this is that a company NeXT's size cannot possibly compete
in all arenas of workstation production with companies 1 or 2 orders of
magnitude greater in size (like Sun, IBM, DEC, HP, etc.).  NeXT simply must
concentrate on a subset of what workstation production entails, and excel in
those areas.

Apparently, Bud Tribble felt that Jobs overemphasized hardware versus software
development and resigned when this disagreement couldn't be resolved.  I am
leaning more and more toward Tribble's point of view.  Hardware is becoming a
commodity item, whereas software (NeXT's real strength) is where NeXT should be
concentrating.

So I hope that NeXT is spending its limited resources on porting NeXTSTEP to as
many hardware architectures as possible rather than on trying to decide what
CPU to go with for the future, a decision fraught with pitfalls when one
considers the choices and politics of each choice.  But I'm afraid that Jobs
considers its own hardware to be essential for NeXT, and I can't see how NeXT
can possibly compete in this very expensive area.  One would hope that van
Cuylenberg (sp?) or Canon or others with influence at NeXT are able to point
NeXT in a successful direction, but I guess Jobs can be difficult to convince,
at times.
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