Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!ucsd!sdcc6!sdcc18!walsh 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 Lines: 18 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?