🚀 go-pugleaf

It doesn't make any sense for NeXT to abandon their hardware product  
line nor is it something they can just do without serious perhaps  
fatal injury.  What is really happening is that NeXTSTEP is going  
head to head against Windows NT and it's going to get bloody.   
Fortunately, NeXT happens to have great ammunition.  NeXT's  
competitors would love it if NeXT dropped it's hardware line.

Realistically, NeXT has and should continue to put the "emphasis" on  
software and keep relatively competitive hardware.  In other words,  
they don't have lead in price/performance hardware but their software  
has to be killer.  Furthermore, I expect NeXT's hardware line to go  
high-end leaving the low-end to other hardware manufacturers.

BTW - Take this on good authority: If you have any doubts about NeXT,  
stay tuned - you're in for a big surprise.

Robert La Ferla
Hot Technologies

In article <1993Jan26.182207.198723@zeus.calpoly.edu>  
mrothste@keiko.acs.calpoly.edu (Rothstein) writes:
> In article <C1ArLs.A1C@utstat.toronto.edu>  
philip@utstat.toronto.edu  
> (Philip McDunnough) writes:
> > In article <1993Jan22.081439.24884@btree.uucp> bly@btree.uucp  
(Roger  
> Bly) writes:
> > 
> > [ ]
> > >
> > >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!
> > 
> > In my opinon dropping out of the hardware business would be a  
terrible 
> > mistake and a very real setback in computing to those who don't  
only  
> care
> > about speed.
> >  
> > [ ]
> > 
> > Philip McDunnough
> > University of Toronto
> > philip@utstat.toronto.edu
> 
> It is my feeling that a poliferation of NS on various platforms  
will help  
> not hinder the sale of NeXThardware.  As NS becomes more accepted  
and  
> people decide to go with it as on os then there will shurely be  
those  
> people(companies) who will pay to get their hardware and os from  
the same  
> source.  If a company has a video problem and has to deal with both  
NeXT  
> and some bizar 3rd party video card manufacturer to solve it that  
could  
> represent more time/money that just going to NeXT.
> --
> -Mont
> 
>    NeXTmail OK :-)
>    President CP-NUG (Cal Poly NeXT User Group)
>    mrothste@data.acs.calpoly.edu