sandhoff@csusac.uucp (John Sandhoff) (06/15/89)
The business section of our local papers has announced that NeXT will be marketing the cube overseas, thru Canon. It's also been announced that Canon is investing $100 million in Next, acquiring a 16% share of the company (and making NeXT worth about $600 mil). Here's some personal readingbetweenthelines: NeXT is going to do color. That's a given they MUST. In the initial training camps, we were told that color would *not* be a 'me too' proposition that when color became available, it would be complete and impressive (what's a color monitor without a color printer?). And what could Canon add to the NeXT? That's right the color print technology that's crucial to the success of electronic snapshots. *This is only my opinion*, based upon nothing but a knowledge of the companies involved....
davef@Jessica.stanford.edu (David Finkelstein) (06/16/89)
In article <1989Jun14.161349.17352@csusac.uucp> sandhoff@csusac.uucp (John Sandhoff) writes: > >Here's some personal readingbetweenthelines: NeXT is going to do color. Besides NeXT, name another company that Jobs has a stake in. No, not T/Maker. Yes, Pixar is the one I was thinking of. A NeXT color diplay processor incorporating Pixar technology is what I'm expecting... --- Dave
gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (06/19/89)
Re: Canon investing $100 million in NeXT Does this mean NeXT is having some financial troubles? After all, that's 20% of the net worth of the company!