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From: jgreely@previous.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Foriegn markets and Languages
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Date: 9 May 89 15:48:21 GMT
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In article <10459@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> grahamr@prism.cs.orst.edu
 (Robert Graham) writes:
>I think that NeXT is a prime example why we have such a large trade
>imbalance. As far as I can tell, they are not concentrating on the
>foriegn market at all, which is a big mistake.

1) The NeXT machine is not out yet.

2) NeXT is a very young company.  Attempting to aggressively market
   world-wide immediately sounds like financial suicide.

3) Take a good look at the cube.  Check the power supply.  It's
   designed to be dropped in just about anywhere in the world.  NeXT
   may not be ready to market abroad now, but they haven't ignored
   the future.

> The
>school I went to (University of Stuttgart), had Sun 3 workstations
>on most CS professors desks, and a Cray 2 squirrelled away somewhere
>on campus

Wow.  Sounds just like Ohio State.  You've done a pretty good job of
describing our environment, and we most emphatically do *not* have
"gobs of liquid cash" (and the Cray's not ours, but it's scheduled to
become a Y-MP soon).

> Students can't earn
>less than about $7 per hour (there are lots of jobs at that wage),

Well, you *were* describing us.

[stuff about foreign language support]

I have as yet seen nothing on foreign language dictionaries or word
processing, but that means nothing.  I suggest contacting a sales type
and getting the latest third-party information (mine's already several
months out of date).


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J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)