Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better Message-ID: <1991Apr4.015311.19714@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University References: <1991Apr3.190802.11055@sugar.hackercorp.com> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 01:53:11 GMT In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >The NeXT is selling well. They are in the $5000 market. You just >don't sell as many machines there. Commodore has sold more machines >than Sun too, but most people would buy stock in Sun. > 20,000 machines isn't so hot, actually. It certainly isn't enought to keep the company afloat, nor will it generate enough sales to keep ANY software houses from the big-world happy. WordPerfect and Lotus will turn back unless sales pick up, as no matter what Steve Jobs wants, they want money. And despite the claims that Lotus couldn't do this on anything but the NeXT environment, they will soon port it to MS Windows and probably XWindows/Unix. I seriously doubt that developing on the NeXT and then porting is CHEAPER than just developing on the destination machine. Jobs probably promised these companies a rose garden. They will soon be disillusioned. Of course, CBM did the same thing back in 1985, and many were soon disillusioned. As to buying stock, as I mentioned before Commodore has been given "Strong Buy" status by a major Wall Street analyst firm. That, combined with very strong sales over the second half of 1990, have resulted in the stock quadrupling in the past 9 months (BTW, a round of applause to those with the vision and money to buy in at $4/share!) How's NeXT stock doing? That's right, they are afraid to make things public. >NeXT question. Arggggghhhhh!!! 8-) > >-Mike > -- Ethan Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb A: None. It's a hardware problem.