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From: walsh@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Kevin Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: NeXT developers
Keywords: text retrieval, developers, who, what, when
Message-ID: <1009@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 7 Dec 88 18:12:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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This newsgroup was very active immediately following the official
debut of the NeXT machine. I, like many of you wanted one yesterday.
Interestingly, many of the postings seem to be from people who also
wanted the machine yesterday, and have yet to actually experience
the machine in real life.  Are there any developers out there
who can tell us what they are developing?  It would no doubt be
useful to the readers of this group to know who is developing what.
Does anyone know if NeXT is preparing a catalog similiar to Sun's
Catalyst?

We, for example, are interested in any developments in the area
of text and image retrieval for library applications; the ability
to scan articles with reasonably detailed photos and deliver that
data across a network to either another NeXT user, or a user with
a postscript printer. Over time, libraries of scanned articles and 
images would come about that reflect our target patrons' needs.
Are such developments currently underway, and if not, would it be 
worthwhile to carry out such a development effort ourselves?