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In article <92Sep16.000354.17602@acs.ucalgary.ca> bstone@acs.ucalgary.ca  
(Blake Stone) writes:
> > 1) Officially, 3.0 is NOT YET SHIPPING.  They said `it is
> >    possible that some people got early copies, but we are not
> >    shipping until later this week.'  In other words, certain
> >    high-profile customers got their copies special to give the
> >    appearance of 3.0 shipping.
> 
> Hello?  This has GOT to be wrong.  Virtually everyone [ ... ]

It *IS* wrong, along with most of the rest of Crispin's post.

> The University of Alberta has received at least 30 copies for
> students, staff etc... not just campus consultants.

U of A got >100 copies on about Sep 9th, one of which was mine,
ordered with the drive bundle in June.  I've had the drive
for a month.
 
> NeXT delivered with an acceptable delay.  Having to run an
> additional beta period for a major product, causing a two month
> delay in shipping, is not cause for concern.  If anything, it is
> unusually prompt.  Compare Mac System 7.

There are lots more comparisons like that.  NeXT is one of the
better companies I've dealt with in this respect.  Find me one
company, anywhere, that has delivered a major OS release exactly
on time.  Next was ~2 months late with this one, which is *MUCH*
better than the industry as a whole does.

-Brad        brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca