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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.152114.11788@grebyn.com>
Date: 6 Apr 91 15:21:14 GMT
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In article <?#3Ga72i1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
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>From comp.sys.next.
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>From: jclee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Lee)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
>Subject: NeXT Press Release
>Date: 5 Apr 91 08:37:50 GMT
>Reply-To: jclee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James C. Lee)
>Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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>The following is NeXT's press release on April 4. In the release it
>has 2 figures showing Q1'91 UNIX Workstation Shipments:
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>	SUN	44,000
>	HP	20,000
>	DEC	 8,000
>	IBM	12,000
>	NeXT	 8,000
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>On Professional Workstation Shipments:
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>	SUN	11,000
>	NeXT	 8,000
>	HP	 3,000
>	DEC	 1,000
>	IBM	 1,000
>

... and then the article goes on to define what a "Professional
Workstation" is.  In a nutshell, it's any computer called "NeXT", but
with some flexibility added so there will be some competitors; and since
nobody would believe a word of the whole release if Next actually sold
better than Sun, Sun gets the top ranking. But NeXT is #2.

It's easy to be the market leader when you get to define your own
market.
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