Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What's coming? Summary: The pot calling the kettle black? Keywords: appropriate use Message-ID: <410@wet.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 22:42:46 GMT References: <65100001@tippy> <245300016@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <6528@rpi.edu> <388@wet.UUCP> <2396@zygot.UUCP> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 31 In article <2396@zygot.UUCP> bruceh@zygot.UUCP (Bruce Henderson) writes: >As far as your grasp of the porpose or the intended market of the >machine, it's obvious you haven't got a clue. As far as any knowlege >about the machine, it's workings or it's methods, you are also >clue-less [I checked the list of people who have attended developer >ED.] So keep your uniformed opinions to yourself! I'm bound by some non-disclosure agreements that make it difficult to rebut this--but you've guessed wrong. Badly. As for NeXT's marketing strategy, let's just say that I have mixed feelings. It doesn't make much difference to me unless they (euphemism) "market limit" the machine in the future. I'm hesitant in my enthusiasm for the machine; some things NeXT employees have told me some things (management decisions) that I consider unfortunate, but not enough to damn the machine. Make no mistake--I *like* NeXTs. I like NeXTs more than anything else in that price range. But I'm not a blind-faith supporter, either. I just tell it like it is. The fact of the matter is that there are a lot of people on this list who have no experience with workstations (or for that matter, NeXTs), whose primary sources of information are hearsay, rumor, and "free subscriptions" to slick vertical publications that aren't exactly known for responsible journalism ... or have a specific agenda which includes painting NeXT in a dim light. "Why can't X be more like Y?" "Why don't you stick with Y?" "I don't like Y." -=EPS=-