Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!previous.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@previous.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Selling through Businessland Keywords: NeXT, RISC, MACH, multiprocessing, bundled software Message-ID: <42030@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 6 Apr 89 06:30:30 GMT References: <1554@neoucom.UUCP> <121@dg.dg.com> <1749@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <123@dg.dg.com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science Lines: 44 (I should start out by saying that any comparison between NeXTs and high-performance workstations is based on the erroneous assumption that the NeXT is intended to compete with existing workstations. Nonsense. It's a high-end Mac with a real operating system) In article <123@dg.dg.com> rec@dg.UUCP (Robert Cousins) writes: [much about the DG boom box. Reads like a press release] >Languages including C, F77, ADA, Lisp, PL/I, Cobol, Basic, and I think >even an RPG compiler (I'm not sure on that). Well (in NeXT-land), C is a given, Lisp is bundled, FORTRAN has been announced, Ada and COBOL would be ... amusing, and Basic will probably show up at some point. >I disagree. There are not currently more than 40 developers working >to develop NeXT compatible hardware and software offerings of the class >and magnitude of those in 88/Open. "of the class and magnitude". Don't you love it when they put you down? Seriously, on what information do you base your numbers? Are you working from the current press releases, or just punting? > The list of ISV's supporting the >software initiative includes: Pulling out competing press releases, only five from your list are currently listed as developing for NeXT: Absoft, Frame Technology, Franz, Inc., Informix Software, and Relational Technology. So where are Adobe, Aldus, Dow Jones, Kinetics, Lotus, and the rest? I didn't spot them on your list, so I guess they're not doing anything of sufficient magnitude. >Not bad, huh? Sort of. Most of the companies you listed don't sell anything I want, and many of the names mean absolutely nothing to me. If it was meant to impress, it doesn't. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)