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From: felix@AI.SRI.COM (Francois Felix INGRAND)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM's Next User Interfcae
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Date: 21 Sep 88 19:31:05 GMT
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In-reply-to: paulm@nikhefk.UUCP (Paul Molenaar)

In article <417@nikhefk.UUCP>, paulm@nikhefk (Paul Molenaar) writes:
>A recent usenet posting stated that IBM payed $10 million for the use
>of the user interface developed by NeXt.
>
>It aroused a lot of curiosity at my end. For what machines does IBM
>need this user interface? It has the Presentation Manager for OS/2? Right?
>What's so special about this interface? Any1 any information on this
>subject?

The information about this deal was coming from the NY Times of Monday 9/12. 

For the answer to your questions, I guess the best is now to wait the 12th of
October... It is now official, I have even some lucky friends who gets their
Invitation to the show (SF Davies Hall).

For IBM... They want to be able to use the "Look and Feel" of the NeXT machine
without troubles.

The thing I thought was interesting in this deal is that if you look at the
Stock of the company, it is something like: (NYT)

(spelling of name is approximative)

Jobs       7 Millions $
Stanford 1.5 Millions $
CMU      1.5 Millions $
Ross Pero 30 Millions $

So it is a big chunk of money IBM is "giving" them... Ohhh, BTW, who is going
to distribute the machine... IBM might give them some help, who knows?

PS: is there a com.sys.next group? is it time to request it now that the machine
is really coming?

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