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From: sandhoff@csusac.uucp (John Sandhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Canon buying in
Keywords: overseas, Canon
Message-ID: <1989Jun14.161349.17352@csusac.uucp>
Date: 14 Jun 89 23:13:47 GMT
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
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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....