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From: dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT Press release
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Date: 22 Apr 91 20:33:19 GMT
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In <=61Gn&tt1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:

>The market segment "Professional Workstation" was defined by 
>International Data Corp. (IDC), and not by NeXT. IDC estimates
>a market of 50,000 units in 1990, increasing to 100,000 in 1991
>and 300,000 in 1992, according to the NeXT market backgrounder
>press release.

>IDC is hardly infallible... actual mileage may vary.

Then why aren't both the Amiga (at least all 2500/30 and 3000) sales,
and OS/2 and Windows on 386 or 486 (I personally wouldn't count 286)
included?  They are at least as much a "professional workstation" as
anything else listed.  Tastes may vary, but the platforms IDC listed
don't support any more personal productivity than the systems I've listed.

I suspect that either their objectivity or research is faulty.

Dan Taylor
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