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From: root@NEXTSERVER.CS.STTHOMAS.EDU (Max Tardiveau)
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Subject: Re: Spreadsheets
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Date: 13 Apr 91 15:45:57 GMT
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In article <1991Apr13.115926.4528@neon.Stanford.EDU> zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman) writes:

> While some of you are worrying about whether NeXT will switch to the 88110
> or stay with the 68040, and what that would mean to your software investment,
> I worry about whether NeXT will be around in a few years.  No matter what the
> technical merit of a machine, its success depends on the software that is
> available for it, and not just any software, but the big 3.
>       Spreadsheets
>       Wordprocessing/Desktop Publishing
>       Databases
> [...]
>    In terms of Databases, I understand that the NeXT has Sybase.  I don't
>  use databases, so I will leave further comment to those that do.

You forget Oracle and Ingres. They're not exactly lightweight products.

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