stefanos@concour.cs.concordia.ca (KIAKAS stefanos) (06/27/91)
hello all in today's WSJ there is an article on NeXT about how it is gaining momentum in the industry and that it will have sales of about $50 million this quarter. it also mentions possible problems concerning competitors who will introduce new and more powerful machines. (Sun and Silicon Graphics) also mentioned, as possible problems, the new aliances being formed by IBM, Apple, and Motorola; ACE ; and that NeXT is building its next computer around the 88k which "is not getting any support". the article mentions that NeXT beat Sun for an order by Los Angeles County Sheriff's department for 250 computers. Other big buyers include Bozell Inc., Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, and First National Bank of Chicago. thought you would like to know. stef
rreid@DPW.COM (r l reid ) (06/28/91)
In article <593@daily-planet.concordia.ca> stefanos@concour.cs.concordia.ca (KIAKAS stefanos) writes: > the article mentions that NeXT beat Sun for an order by Los Angeles > County Sheriff's department for 250 computers. They oughta make them a beta test site - they're good at beating on things... Ro
alain@elevia.UUCP (W.A.Simon) (06/28/91)
In <3353@esquire.dpw.com> rreid@DPW.COM (r l reid ) writes: >In article <593@daily-planet.concordia.ca> stefanos@concour.cs.concordia.ca (KIAKAS stefanos) writes: >> the article mentions that NeXT beat Sun for an order by Los Angeles >> County Sheriff's department for 250 computers. >They oughta make them a beta test site - they're good at beating on >things... I wonder what Daryl "Kill Everybody" Gates would think of a machine that is completely black... and talks back. >Ro -- William "Alain" Simon UUCP: alain@elevia.UUCP
crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) (06/28/91)
>They oughta make them a beta test site - they're good at beating on >things... Ha! But, it was the L.A. City Police in the news lately, not the L.A. County Sherriff's Department. I understand that the first major application of NeXTs in the Sherriff's offices will be to establish a document database, processing and exchange system including support for scanned-in documents (with optical character recognition, etc.) There are a couple off-the-shelf NeXT database applications for sophisticated scanned document processing. It will be neat if they then move on to displaying mug shots and fingerprints and such. I guess the Sherriff's office might not need super-excellent quality, but NeXTdimension boards and Kodak PhotoCD would do nicely for this sort of thing. (I hope PhotoCD is on schedule to be implemented in 1992, so that consumers can get their 35mm negatives scanned in and written onto special rewritable CD-ROMs compatible with existing CD-ROM players, for around $20 for a roll of film and a similiarly reasonable price for prints made from the roughly 8K by 8K digital photo scans. Allen, please do comment on the Sherriff's Department application when you can, or just give me the info and I'll summarize! The installation of NeXTs in the William Morris Agency (e.g. in Beverly Hills) is also going nicely, I understand -- and moving from inter-office connections using UUCP to a more sophisticated IP/TCP network rather like the Internet. (By the way, the Internet designers at ISI in Marina Del Rey, e.g. John Postel, prefer "IP/TCP" to "TCP/IP", because TCP is just one of the transport layer protocols on top of IP network layer. Other transport protocols are UDP and VMTP.) Gary
isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Art Isbell) (06/28/91)
In article <3353@esquire.dpw.com> rreid@esquire.UUCP (r l reid ) writes: >In article <593@daily-planet.concordia.ca> stefanos@concour.cs.concordia.ca (KIAKAS stefanos) writes: >> the article mentions that NeXT beat Sun for an order by Los Angeles >> County Sheriff's department for 250 computers. > >They oughta make them a beta test site - they're good at beating on >things... > >Ro Humorous, but inaccurate. Let's not blame the wrong guys; the Los Angeles Police Department, not the Los Angeles County Sheriff, is the infamous organization. I haven't heard anyone say that a Sheriff was present, only LAPD and CHP (correct me by email if I'm wrong). Anyone who order 250 NeXT's can't be too bad :-) -- _____ ____ Art Isbell |\ | HELP! | | | \ 315 Moon Meadow Lane NeXT Registered Developer | \ | ___ |____| | | Felton, CA 95018-9442 isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU | \ | |___| | \ | | (408)335-1154 => I NEED TO FIND NeXT ==> | \| |___ | \ |___/ ==> DEVELOPMENT WORK <=
glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) (06/29/91)
r l reid writes > In article <593@daily-planet.concordia.ca> stefanos@concour.cs.concordia.ca (KIAKAS stefanos) writes: > > the article mentions that NeXT beat Sun for an order by Los Angeles > > County Sheriff's department for 250 computers. > > They oughta make them a beta test site - they're good at beating on > things... Now, now--that was the LAPD, not the Sheriff's department. I'm sure the L.A. Sheriffs are very nice people. I'm sure of it. -- Glenn Reid NeXTMail: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us RightBrain Software ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn NeXT/PostScript developers 415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)