thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark R. Thomsen) (06/28/91)
Last week I attended an in-house presentation by Steve Jobs. There were a few points made that at least I found interesting: - there is a DB Kit that will be beta tested soon and will be in the 3.0 release (January?); Jobs' demo used the kit to build a database app that was more impressive (richer data types) than last September's roll-out demo - someone asked about the market adding portable/laptops; Jobs noted that the cube-to-slab transition went small (noting the slab weighs less than the Mac portable :); that they are doing something in that direc- tion - someone asked about servers; Jobs noted NeXT is focused on the desktop; servers by their nature are designed to be replaced (e.g. Sun 4/490 today; HP 9000 X tomorrow - my example) and don't have holding power which NeXT needs; on desktop they are not trying to be fastest, just the best; next year they might come out with a machine that, however, is the fastest on the desktop; a loaded cube might be a departmental server He seemed quite confident (the WSJ article might be a clue there). The video was Star Wars this time. He remains one of the best presenters around. Mark