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From: bruce@atncpc.UUCP (Bruce Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 15,000 orders---inflated?
Summary: not real numbers
Message-ID: <336@atncpc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 90 21:13:37 GMT
References: <382@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>
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In article <382@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
> Anyway, the bottom line is that NeXT may have coerced distributers
> into promising to order more machines, so that Steve could
> pull out the big 15,000 figure at the gala. So, we're not 
> out of the woods, yet.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Barry Merriman
> UCLA Dept. of Math
> UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
> barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)

Actually,
	This little number does not come from distributors and campus
bookstores per say.  More along the lines of "big companies that were
sitting on the fence".  Please refer to earlier articles where I state
that the NeXT customer base is at least 15,000 machines.  I can't tell
you (still) how I knew, but that is the reason.


Bruce Henderson
Ashton Tate NeXTeam