Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!taurus!aldebaran!schweige From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga/NeXT flames (Was Re: Amiga OS *IS* state...) Message-ID: <2078@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> Date: 11 Apr 91 05:36:04 GMT References: <46907@ut-emx.uucp> <12622@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) Distribution: na Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA Lines: 39 In article <12622@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes: >In article <> kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shepard) writes: >>Oh! Those people could not be wrong. NeXT is a company worth more than >>$600,000,000 this is actually before they produced a single machine. Last >>year they made ~$100 million. > >Just out of curiosity -- where are you getting your numbers? > >I was under the impression that NeXT was a privately held company. >Furthermore, I heard that they had sold only 15,000 of their original >machines. At ten-thousand a shot, something doesn't add up -- unless, >*gasp* there were 15,000 suckers born last year. :) > > >David Navas navas@cory.berkeley.edu NeXT is a privately held company. I don't know how much venture capital was put up to get it rolling. I also agree that the chances that NeXT make about $100 million last year are very slim. According to press reports, Steve Jobs last week admitted that NeXT shipped only 10,000 of its first line of machines, the ones which were unveiled in October 1988 for $9,995. To _gross_ $100 million on all of the original NeXT's sold would have required an average sale price of $10000. These 10000 machines were actually sold over a two year period, so I doubt very much that NeXT had a $100 million profit last year. Also since previously Jobs kept his sales figures secret, I imagine that numbers such as profit and net worth have also been withheld (as is their right). Jobs also does not expect to ship more than 50000 machines this year. Jeff Schweiger -- ******************************************************************************* Jeff Schweiger Standard Disclaimer CompuServe: 74236,1645 Internet (Milnet): schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil *******************************************************************************