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Re: NeXT's commitment to academe

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From: Louis A. Mamakos
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 02:27
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In article <1992Sep13.013548.24221@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes:

>Peter van Cuylenberg recently told me that NeXT had identified three  
>distinct markets (direct corporate sales including government,  
>dealers/VARs/VADs/system integrators, and academe), and that NeXT would be  
>reorganizing its sales force to explicitly reflect these three different  
>markets.

So what?  When and if this translates to support for academic
customers like I've come to expect from the likes of DEC and Sun for
their UNIX platforms, this will mean something.  Right now, I consider
this recorganzation to be explained by entropy or brownian motion.
Heat and no light.

> Indeed, actions speak louder than words.

Yeah, when I get my reported bugs in NeXT's software fixed, these
actions will mean something.

louie
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