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bain0002@bullnext.mc.duke.edu (Landen Bain) writes:

| matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
| > Actually, what's interesting is that something from 
| > a non-disclosure meeting made it to the public eyes.

| The non-disclosure was about new Sun products.  The
| salesperson took a shot at NeXT by passing along a
| side-bar rumor about the engineers.  The implication was
| that the move was major, an earthquake, and that Sun had
| made a major coup.

All the more reason, in my opinion, to not care about the comment.  If Sun  
had made a really tremendous coup (say, by signing Steve Jobs), you know  
damn well they'd be putting out public announcements about it.  Some "shot  
at NeXT" that Sun takes during a non-disclosure meeting about new Sun  
products seems to indicate that it's just Sun spreading FUD*.  IBM used to  
love to do that kinda thing, and my own person opinion is that Sun (the  
company) is more like IBM than anyone would care to admit.

The fact that it was said in a non-disclosure meeting, which would imply  
that no one outside of that room would hear it (to cross-check the comment  
or the significance of it), means that it may not be anywhere near as  
significant (or as real) as you were led to believe.

Even what he said wasn't all that stunning.  If Sun really thinks that all  
they need are "new icons" to compete with NeXT, then we should feel pretty  
confident that they don't really have a clue as to what is most important  
about the NeXT platform.  I mean, I do very much like the icons with NeXT  
applications, but all the pretty icons in the world are not as important to  
me as the Interface Builder.

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(*FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, Dread)

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