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From: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: press clippings Re: The NeXT machine
Message-ID: <10729@reed.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 06:00:30 GMT
References: <360@elan.UUCP> <17479@gatech.edu> <3246@utastro.UUCP> <8300@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <8300@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> wetter@cit-vax.UUCP (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
>-> [There is] *no way* [I will have my programmers write software
>-> for NeXT any time soon]." (Emphasis added by poster).
>->             -Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
[...]
>  Only an idiot like Bill Gates would be disappointed by the NeXt Machine.

You give Mr. Gates *far* too little credit.  He is a very smart, very aware
gentleman.  Is he disappointed?  I suspect not.

Remember that Microsoft is currently investing millions of dollars in
technologies that are in many ways competing with what NeXT has announced.
Among them:
 Microsoft        NeXT
PM/Windows  <--> NeXTStep (or whatever)
OS/2        <--> Mach
CD/ROM      <--> NeXT optical drive

Microsoft would like OS/2 to be *the* exciting OS, the *obvious* choice
for personal computer software development.  Whatever you think of the
price (yicko!), the NeXT machine is quite a bit more sexy than OS/2 on
a 386.  NeXT will gather developer attention & general "mindshare" that
would have otherwise been focused on Microsoft (and Apple).

You will note that of late there have been a number of print articles
under Bill Gates name lauding Object Oriented programming, yet the NeXT
machine, which is the first major machine to be delivered with
such tools, does not get even a note of his praise.

What ever you think of Mr. Gate's comments, I really doubt that they
stem from him being disappointed.

Mike