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From: isbell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXt Performance/Price
Summary: NeXT seems responsive to me
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Date: 10 Apr 89 03:07:47 GMT
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   My experience with NeXT does not indicate unresponsiveness to "the little
guy".  I am merely a CS graduate student with an interest in *future* NeXT
development work.  CU has been slow to conclude a support contract with NeXT,
so I wrote NeXT directly expressing my interest in becoming a NeXT developer
(3475 Deer Creek Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304).  NeXT returned a Registered
Developer Program application relatively promptly which I completed and
returned.  Although I really don't expect to be accepted in the Registered
Developer Program because of my lack of development experience, I am still
within the 4-6 week application processing period, so I may yet be pleasantly
surprised.  So I would suggest that anyone interested in the NeXT Registered
Developer Program should write, not call, NeXT.  They may just be too busy to
handle real time interactive (telephone) information requests, but they do
seem to operate well in the batch mode (U.S. mail) at this time.

Art Isbell