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Article #473Re: NeXT's vs. mainframes -- sales of 6000 machines
From: Bruce F. Webster
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:11
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:11
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In article <1992Jul21.201713.22702@gordian.com> bruce@gordian.com (Bruce Hafford) writes: > > I have a friend who is in a position to help make a 6,000 person > > company (every person has a computer, thus 6,000 machines! big > > big deal!) switch from their IBM mainframes over to NeXTs. > > Wait a minute - there's no way EVERYONE in the company > needs a NeXT. If you oversell them on it and it turns into a > management and user mess, they'll be rather un-sold on > NeXT's. I'd look at what people really need their machines for > first - if 3000 plain mono Xstations and 3000 NeXT's are the way to > go, then that's a better solution than more power.... I dunno...everyone in _our_ company has a NeXT. Of course, there aren't 6,000 of us (yet). ;-) ..bruce.. Bruce F. Webster Director, BRI bwebster@pages.com #import <pages/disclaimer.h>
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!mips!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!pages!bwebster From: bwebster@pages.com (Bruce F. Webster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NeXT's vs. mainframes -- sales of 6000 machines Message-ID: <1992Jul27.211114.3347@pages.com> Date: 27 Jul 92 21:11:14 GMT References: <1992Jul21.201713.22702@gordian.com> Sender: bwebster@pages.com Reply-To: bwebster@pages.com Organization: Banzai Research Institute Lines: 20