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Subject: Re: Publicizing NeXT
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From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
Date: 11 May 91 13:40:12
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In article <1991May10.003154.5601@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
   In article <91124.215239IO92395@MAINE.BITNET> IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A.Venkatesan) writes:
   >I think a similar thing can be done by NeXT as a great promotion campaign. They
   >may not want to lease NeXTs to students, but they could lease them to
   >Universities for faculty to use and to the industry, for an year or so. 

   >So what do you think guys?
   >

   Nah, I don't think so. I'm all for it if NeXT wanted to do it,
   but I don't think they could make any money on it.

   (1) Their factory only has a 100,000 machine/yr capacity, so
       that puts an upper bound on how much of this they could do,
       unless they were making money off the leases.

Until they are putting out enough to keep up with demand, this can
wait.  You might notice that NeXT's not been doing any sort of
aggressive marketing - this is at least partially due to the
fact that if they started getting orders for 100 machines/week,
they'd not be able to fill them.  What happens if the adds went
well (like Data General's), and they start selling 200/week?

Later,
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scott hess                      scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer	GAC Undergrad	<almost out!>
<I still speak for nobody>