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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by mattl on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:30AM (#17615715)
It was literally a merger on paper, for what that’s worth. NeXT were also close to an IPO and their dev tools were second to none. WebObjects and EOF were first rate products easily worth hundreds of millions to the right people in their own right.
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by oblio on Thursday July 26, 2018 @08:51AM (#17617007)
That distortion field is very powerful, I see. NeXT failed as an enterprise. It was close to going the way of the Lisp Machines.
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by mattl on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:58AM (#17617967)
Oh yeah. I have no doubt they were failing. But those two pieces of tech were very smart for their time.
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by oblio on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:20AM (#17618142)
Yes, I, too, saw that demo from the 80's. But the best tech doesn't always win :)
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Re:The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple ... by mattl on Thursday July 26, 2018 @02:42PM (#17619798)
I don’t think EOF is from the 80s. WebObjects certainly isn’t.
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