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In article <1dtuk5INNot8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)  
writes:
> 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.


	Like always, things in this message are IMHO.

	Btw: Anyone know if HP is still getting creamed?  Even with 
	their price cuts (hell, surgery) on their PC systems, their
	only real successful division these last two years seems to
	have been printers... Anyone?

	<And boy is the HP LJ 4 sweet.>

	Next has a user interface for people who don't want to pick
	and poke and hack and spooze over autoexec.bat's and system
	errors.  Hell, I've only managed to bring down the NeXT that I 
	use (without trying) once or twice (but it was _down_, as in, 
	not responsing to the power-up/down key.. What idiot threw out
	the idea of a hardware reset....)... 

	Good for them, but it's not going to win them the workstation
	market, which is an eat-'em up and spit-'em out kind of market.





> 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.


	Hardware is a commodity to a point.  This is true.  But 
	NeXT (and users) has a much easier time is the base hardware
	is in some way standard.  I think that with NT and multiplatform
	OS/2, you're going to start seeing the underlying hardware
	become unimportant _for awhile_ but them pretty much heterogenize
	as users--now that they're using the same software--want to use
	peripherals as well.

	At least it leaves some room for creativity....


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