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randy@appsoft.com(Randy Adams) writes:

>Adobe has probably spent and lost more money trying to support NeXT than almost  
>any other third party developer.  Problem is that there are only about 1,000  
>people out there who at any given time would buy a NeXT application.  Adobe  
>would have to be crazy to waste any more money trying to support next until the  
>total NeXTSTEP install base is at least equal to the number of Macintoshs sold  
>in one month.

Randy, I certainly hope you aren't in the marketing department of
Appsoft...  I seriously do not agree with your 1,000 number.  There
are several commercial sites that have >500 NeXTs at each alone.
(not to mention however many the US Gov't has).  There are far more
than 1,000 licenses to be had of software that does something that
the average user would want. (Ok, it's up for question as to whether
or not Adobe Photoshop qualifies as one of these, but a good
word processor would certainly qualify - II am absolutely certain
that WordPerfect has sold more than 1,000 copies of WordPerfect for
NeXT)

Maybe Randy thinks that no one buys NeXT products because no one has
bought Draw.  I know that I did not recommend it after I loaded the
picture of the sports car, zoomed in twice (as I can do with
Illustrator quite easily) and had the machine freeze writing an
infinitely big swapfile. (Well, I did telnet in and stop it as the
swapfile was rounding the 220 MB mark on a 32 MB color station)

I would be interested to know how many licenses of Diagram! have been
sold.  My guess would be far more than 1,000, as it is an extremely
well-designed and fairly priced product.

Everyone keeps selling NeXTs short as far as market penetration.
It's not in huge numbers yet, but we are making significant inroads
in many markets!
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