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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.005909.8194@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 5 Nov 90 23:54:35 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.002309.25393@agate.berkeley.edu>, knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes...
[...]
>I wrote:
>>>...if there is any justice, these men (businessmen) will hire computer
>>>people to make their computer-purchase decisions for them.
> 
>keith replies:
>>My experience with MIS people tells me otherwise.
> 
>I think the NeXT will have more appeal to MIS people than the Mac II.  
>NeXTStep, after all, already runs on IBM machines....


Well, this has not been my experience.  A fellow I know runs a large (400
machine +) MIS shop.  He has developed for the Next (had one at home) and is a
unix guru, but has been unimpressed with its record in the past two years. 
Suffice it to say that despite the new Next machines they are going totally
A/UX.  

Now of course you can't extrapolate from this to every MIS shop, but it
certainly points out that Next isn't winning over all MIS folk, even those with
mucho Next experience.

Robert


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