Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!brunix!agm From: agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: No color this fall? Message-ID: <44175@brunix.UUCP> Date: 29 Jun 90 04:10:14 GMT References: Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: agm@cs.brown.edu (Axel Merk) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 24 Just a quick opinion about management styles: Jack Tramiel, former president of Commodore (yes, the company that opened the computer market to the general public) was fired from his own company in 1984 because he changed the head management too frequently. The company had just grown grown to a billion-dollar company and they decided to kick out the heart of the company (ok, Jack is no perfectionist as Steve Jobs is, but that's not the point I'm trying to make). Jack Tramiel left, the stock price of cbm plunged from 42 to about 10 within a year, and the company had to go on a severe "diet" in order to avoid running chapter 11. Nowadays, he is running Atari (with his son) and won't let anyone kick him out again.... If Steve Jobs fired a couple of important people (or they just left), there might be a good reason for it. I believe, however, that NeXT wouldn't be NeXT without Steve Jobs. If he does not get along with some people -- it's up to him to replace them; I wouldn't be surprised if these ones were in favor of the pizza-box like monster you scare us with. Axel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Axel Merk "One needs a certain amount of blindness -- -- agm@cs.brown.edu to see perfection" - Christopher Nuzum -- -- (401) 272 2262 -- Brown University -- Box 53 -- Providence -- RI 02912 --