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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 8 Apr 91 15:42:05 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
>
>
>The following is NeXT's press release on April 4. In the release it
>has 2 figures showing Q1'91 UNIX Workstation Shipments:
>
>	SUN	44,000
>	HP	20,000
>	DEC	 8,000
>	IBM	12,000
>	NeXT	 8,000
>
>
>Here's the release:
>
>NeXT SHIPS 8,000 CPUs IN FIRST QUARTER  Makes  NeXT  One  of
>Leading Professional Workstation Vendors
>
>        REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 4, 1991 P NeXT Computer,
>Inc.  today announced that it shipped 8,000 NeXT CPUs during
>the first quarter of 1991, which ended  March  31.   It  was
>NeXT's  first full quarter shipping its new line of worksta-
>tions.
>
>        All of NeXT's shipments were into  the  professional
>workstation category, making NeXT one of the leading vendors
>in this segment.  Professional workstations,  unlike  tradi-
>tional  scientific/technical workstations, are UNIX worksta-
>tions designed for non-technical users.
>

(lots of misleading propoganda deleted)

  Oh boy, big deal! So 8,000 units were shipped! We have been
hearing for ages now how the Next was backordered by 20,000
units, and now we here that 8,000 have actually gone out!
Whoopie! Why is it considered only one market period when it
actually took over a year to ship them?

  I remember a few years back when the Pontiac Fiero was
first made. It sold over 100,000 cars in its first year,
which is 2-3 times more than the average car in its class.
Next year, it dropped to 80,000 and then fizzled down
to 50,000 in the next year. NeXT, it died out for good.

  Not impressed. (Actually, maybe I'll try that one on one 
of my professors. 'So what if it is the last week of the
semester; I still am handing in all of my assignments in
one huge lump.")


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David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN  
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