Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!math.ucla.edu!joshua!barry From: barry@joshua.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT's financial position Summary: Its getting better Message-ID: <2669@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Date: 2 May 90 07:55:55 GMT References: <5107@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <11147@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Sender: news@MATH.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: barry@math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) Distribution: comp.sys.next Organization: UCLA Department of Math Lines: 13 The May 1 L.A. Times has an article (pg. D7) Entitled "William Morris Buys 250 NeXT Workstations" The upshot is that the William Morris Advertising agency will buy 250 NeXT's for 2.5 Million $ this year. 78 of these are already in place in the LA and NY offices. It says they will be used to track the availability of actors, directors, and others in the entertainment biz, as well as ``improve the agency's deal making capabilities''. The rest of the 5 paragraph article just summarizes the history and slow start of NeXT---nothing you don't already know about.