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In article <1993Jan22.081439.24884@btree.uucp> bly@btree.uucp (Roger Bly) writes:
>In article <MS-C.727314477.1103527590.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
>>Anyone read the Business Week article about NeXT yet?  Looks grim.
>
>Really looks like Steve is going to have to dump the hardware business
>to keep NeXT and NeXTStep going.  With deals in the works with Compaq,
>HP, etc. It looks like NeXT will be a software company by the end of the year.
>But of course, software is where all the value/money is!

I don't understand why everyone wants NeXT to drop hardware. NeXT turned a 
profit.  As long as they can sell the hardware at a profit why drop it?

Several people have suggested that the software ports will take all of their
resources but there are two problems with that argument.

1) If the software ports are going to create so much revenue for NeXT then
they can just hire more programmers. After all they will have all the new
found money right?

2) If they abandon a profitable hardware line then what will they use to
finance all the programmers working on software?  If they drop the hadware
then they will just have that much less revenue.

Am I missing something or do you just hate NeXT hardware?

Frank

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