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From: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor)
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Subject: Re: NeXT sales
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Date: 6 Apr 91 21:26:06 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.192345.22647@milton.u.washington.edu> bishop@milton.u.washington.edu (John Bishop) writes:
>  	"If we could sell $200 million to $250 million of computers
>this year, which is quite possible, it will put us on the map as a
>viable player," he said.
>	Mr. Jobs said that 60 percent of Next's sales were now to
>businesses and 40 percent to colleges, the company's original target
>market.  About 30 percent of the company's sales are in Europe and
>Japan, he said.  [End of article]

	SUN	44,000
	HP	20,000
	DEC	 8,000
	IBM	12,000
	NeXT	 8,000

 Not too shabby, order backlog or no.  After all, that's only 1/2
 of their original backlog, so they can put up the same numbers next
 quarter at the very least.  If they can keep up some sales momentum
 until their new product rollouts next fall, they could be in good
 shape.  

 Looks like they figure on an average of $5,000 per sale.  The unit 
 volume is probably of more interest to most software developers--
 gives them more opportunities for sales. The business sales are a
 good sign.  

Don McGregor             | "When transporting a monkey, don't let him take
mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu|  the wheel no matter how much he screeches."