Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!alicudi.usc.edu!crum From: crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT predicts sales of $45-$50 million dollars for quarter Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 13:24:22 GMT References: <593@daily-planet.concordia.ca> <3353@esquire.dpw.com> Sender: news@usc.edu Organization: University of Southern California Lines: 35 Nntp-Posting-Host: alicudi.usc.edu In-reply-to: rreid@DPW.COM's message of 27 Jun 91 21:27:01 GMT Originator: crum@alicudi.usc.edu >They oughta make them a beta test site - they're good at beating on >things... Ha! But, it was the L.A. City Police in the news lately, not the L.A. County Sherriff's Department. I understand that the first major application of NeXTs in the Sherriff's offices will be to establish a document database, processing and exchange system including support for scanned-in documents (with optical character recognition, etc.) There are a couple off-the-shelf NeXT database applications for sophisticated scanned document processing. It will be neat if they then move on to displaying mug shots and fingerprints and such. I guess the Sherriff's office might not need super-excellent quality, but NeXTdimension boards and Kodak PhotoCD would do nicely for this sort of thing. (I hope PhotoCD is on schedule to be implemented in 1992, so that consumers can get their 35mm negatives scanned in and written onto special rewritable CD-ROMs compatible with existing CD-ROM players, for around $20 for a roll of film and a similiarly reasonable price for prints made from the roughly 8K by 8K digital photo scans. Allen, please do comment on the Sherriff's Department application when you can, or just give me the info and I'll summarize! The installation of NeXTs in the William Morris Agency (e.g. in Beverly Hills) is also going nicely, I understand -- and moving from inter-office connections using UUCP to a more sophisticated IP/TCP network rather like the Internet. (By the way, the Internet designers at ISI in Marina Del Rey, e.g. John Postel, prefer "IP/TCP" to "TCP/IP", because TCP is just one of the transport layer protocols on top of IP network layer. Other transport protocols are UDP and VMTP.) Gary