Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!uflorida!math.ufl.edu!shadrach.math.ufl.edu!scd From: scd@math.ufl.edu (Steve C Donahue) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: USENIX Summer 1991 and the absence of NeXT Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 05:34:09 GMT Sender: news@math.ufl.edu Distribution: comp.sys.next Organization: University of Florida Department of Mathematics Lines: 24 I am currently attending the summer USENIX conference in Nashville. The theme of the conference is "MULTIMEDIA FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE". I was amazed to find that NeXT does not have a vendor booth. One of the strong points of the NeXT is the fact that it lends itself so well to multimedia applications. The only NeXT machines that I have seen are MIT's NeXTstation color and Pencom's cube (demonstrating co-Xist). WAKE UP NeXT! Those of us who own your machines know how good they are. People wonder why NeXTs have not sold better than they have. Exposure is the key to sales. This conference would have been a good place to increase your exposure. No flames please. I am not NeXT bashing. I am simply questioning their marketing strategies. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Steve Donahue Internet: scd@cis.ufl.edu CIS Engineering NeXTmail: uflorida!thecube!steve University of Florida