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From: langz@asylum.SF.CA.US (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: New IBM workstations running NeXTStep?
Message-ID: <9008@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 12 Dec 89 23:16:58 GMT
References: <286@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner)
Organization: The Great Escape, Inc
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In article <286@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> amthor@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Geoffrey Amthor) writes:
>...is IBM willing to gamble ... confusing its SAA marketing picture by
>supporting the technically superior product that is NeXTStep? 

This is not exactly a flame on IBM (Geoff requested restraint), but when
introducing a new technology IBM typically dumps several solutions onto the
market and picks up the winner.  This helps them to more often than others
"create the new standard," since they create *most* standards and use the ones
that hold.



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