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From: glang@henry (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Number of NeXT's sold
Message-ID: <3687@autodesk.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 91 02:10:07 GMT
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In article <3825@island.COM> chris@island.COM (Chris King) writes:
> alexn@alexn.austin.ibm.com writes:
> 
> >Does anybody out there have any solid figures (i.e, no blind guesses) about
> >how many machines NeXT has sold and how many machines they have backlogged?
> >I need this information for a private project which I am doing.
> >Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> >Regards,
> 
> >Alex
> >alexn@cetnet.austin.ibm.com
> 
> I just got a "Sun Observer" rag. Which had a article that included the
> following numbers from International Data Corp.
> 


IDG? He said no blind guesses. You've got to find another source, I'm afraid,  
IDG doesn't qualify.

Nevertheless	, if NeXT is outselling SG, and SG is getting all this attention  
from Compaq and Microsoft, I'm not too pessimistic about these numbers.

Also, I understand that NeXT has 17% market share in Europe for workstations.  
This is not a blind guess.

Anyway where's your soul? I'd write code for this machine even if nobody was  
buying them. Lucky for me, they really are. Beancounters never created anything  
new and interesting, and they never make any real money either. Just go for it.

-g