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Article #4152Re: The Future of Next, Inc.
From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:36
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:36
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In article <1992Dec27.015305.27995@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes: > I just read the status of Next, Inc. in the latest issue of the > Economist. The line in the 1st paragraph reads, approximately, > > "Next, Inc. has yet to turn a profit". > > At the end of the article, it notes that a high-ranked official had > jumped ship and moved to Sun Microsystems. Mr. Job laments that > Sun may yet crush the daylights out of his company. 1. NeXT is a privately held company and has not released any financial information. Anything you read is pure speculation. 2. The "high-ranked official" that left NeXT left after a vote of "no confidence" by his group members. 3. Sun has been losing some *tasty* sales to NeXT ;-) 4. We dig this fluff in comp.sys.next.advocacy, so let's move this budding flame-fest over there! -- Nathan Janette PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!news From: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Subject: Re: The Future of Next, Inc. Message-ID: <1992Dec27.063606.25199@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: hilbert.biology.yale.edu Reply-To: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT References: <1992Dec27.015305.27995@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:36:06 GMT Lines: 29