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From: dfickes@bucsb.UUCP (David Fickes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Selling through Businessland
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Date: 31 Mar 89 23:08:28 GMT
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The answer is YES....  Pick up a copy of BusinessWeek 
(April 10 issue) and take a look at page 80.  Business Land
has committed to $100 million in 12 months.  They mention
that the machine is a $10,000 (commercial price?)

I'll type in the article sometime soon.. (pick up a copy
of the durn magazine if you want the news NOW!)

Other interesting notes from the article:

1. Compaq pulled it machines out of BusinessLand
2. Sun Microsystems has spurned BL stating that their
	customers would rather buy direct.
3. BL is trying to become more than a retailer and is
	attempting to become a large installer of networks
	(which also happens to be where the margins are)
4. BL is betting that Unix machines should account 
	for 30% of office sales by 1992 as opposed to the 
	current 3%.
5. OS/2 is still the #1 operating system targeted by 
	system developers
6. NextStep will appear on IBM Unix machines during the
	summer.

The article is rather evenhanded, trying very hard not
to go whole hog.  The last statement is a good summary:

"...if Jobs can deliver all the things he says he 
will, Next could well become a strong influence on 
computing in the 1990s.  For now, at least, he's
has made all the right moves."

(edit note: "he's has" is from the original not a typo)



- david

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