jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch) (12/06/90)
In article <9465@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-gy@danube.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ben (Benno) Carroll) writes: >NeXT...I have to wonder whether Steve Jobs et al can afford to keep that >deal going for any period of time...I think it's a great way to finally >install the much-needed user base, but if I were a NeXT owner, I would be >thinking about the possibility that Jobs' creditors may get tired of >watching him take a loss, and force him to either raise the prices back >to or above their previous stellar prices, or go bankrupt. I would hate >to see 25,000 orphaned NeXT owners...:( At a NeXT demonstration on campus, one of the attendants asked that very question to the sales rep. The sales rep said that NeXT is indeed making a profit on the NeXT workstation even at the ed. discount prices and that they have no intention of raising the price of any machine, ever. X-------------------+--------------+-----------------------X | | |\ |>jon@brahms.udel.edu<| "For my 2 cents, | | \|on |/eutsch |>>-----------------<<| I'd pay a dollar" | X------+--------------------+--------------------+---------X
carpente@corinth.uucp (Michael A. Carpenter OSBU North) (12/06/90)
In article <9465@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-gy@danube.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ben (Benno) Carroll) writes: >To all you Amigans and NeXTers out there... >I think it would be great if the new blood >(NeXT and Amiga both) were to survive and eventually dominate the market, >maybe even bankrupting the old boring-and-relatively inflexible families >of Mac and IBM. [Start soapbox] I think it is unfortunate that people (in general, and this doesn't just happen with computers, but in all aspects of life) get caught up in a very myoptic vision of the world. We all need to come to grips with the fact that NO ONE COMPUTER IS GOING TO SURVIVE AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL OTHERS!!! Pardon me for shouting, but we are living in the age of Open Systems and Interoperability. And for all the media hype about these things, we are finally coming to a point where 10 people can work together on 10 different computers. And I think that is how it should be. Maybe Amiga is right for me and NeXT is right for you and IBM is right for someone else, etc. So what? Let it be. Let's stop the religious bashing and get on with the more important work of making things cooperate seamlessly together! Let's get on with standards like TCP/IP, FDDI, etc. that will unite a heterogeneous computer world. We can have unity without all being forced to use the same brand of computers! [End soapbox] Sorry, to make this sound like a tirade... Michael carpente@parc.xerox.com