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In article <1992Oct14.040026.6933@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com writes:
> BUT, the tone in the press about NT has changed noticibly in the past
> two weeks from "Bill Gates is God and NT is his 32-bit Aegis" to "NT
> probably won't ship till late '93 and will probably be too volatile to
> use until early '94."
> 
> If I were NeXT I would JUMP on this.  Get those $80 SDKs out there!
> Pump the press.  Hold a developers conference!  Every ISV in the
> Windows and future NT market just **hates** Microsoft.  If they
> thought NeXTSTEP had a chance they would write software for it.  If
> people knew about NeXTSTEP they would ask for it, and the press would
> write about it.  Therein lies the problem.

If NeXT had a huge blowout advertising run now, they'd be in the same place as  
MicroSoft in three months - lots of complaints about buggy software and delayed  
ship dates.  I say NeXT should wait until they have a solid (NeXTSTEP 3.1,  
anybody :-) product out on the '486, and then blast away.  Don't get caught in  
a vapor war with Microsoft (or is that a land war in Asia?).

- Ernie P.
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Ernest N. Prabhakar                  Caltech High Energy Physics
Member, League for Programming Freedom (league@prep.ai.mit.edu)
CaJUN President        NeXTMail:ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu
"...and ourselves, your servants for Jesus sake." - II Cor 4:5b
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