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In article <29E9FA96.56C5@deneva.sdd.trw.com> thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark Thomsen) writes:
>Steven D. Borrelli writes
>> So far my estimates are as follows:
>> Sales (1991) $127 million
>> Units shipped in 1991 (estimate)   32,000-56,000.
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>I calculate that the units was a bit lower ...
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>$127,000,000 divided by 32,000 machines give approximately $4000 per machine.
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>$127,000,000 divided by 56,000 machines give approximately $2250 per machine.
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>Now we all know that a NeXT computer costs more than $4000 except for the  

But what you are missing is that NeXT sells machines through resellers
that mark them up.  NeXT sells to VAR snd universities cheap.  Only the
the regular retail market pays $5000 but only a protion of that goes to
next.  I believe that they sold 45-50K machines.

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>P.S. Anyone ready to flame me for predicting that NeXT would catch Sun in sales  
>in another year? :) :) :)

I won't flame you. I think in the next couple of years NeXT will be
giving Sun a serious competition for sales.

Sun thinks so also.  Why would a 3 billion dollar company be worried
about a 200 million dollar company if they didn't see dark clouds
in the future.

Sun is nervous and should be.
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