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dominant player in the workstation business.
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The re-positioning came too late, and it did nothing to improve the
disastrous state of the companys financials. They were still spending money like crazy, as exemplified by their new offices facing a marina in
Redwood City and its free-standing staircase designed by I.M. Peis architectural firm. But they were hardly selling: their revenues for 1990 were
as low as $28 million (in comparison, Sun made $2.5 billion that same year). In addition, NeXTs deal with IBM was canceled, as it proved difficult for two
such radically different companies to cooperate. Steve was still suspicious of Big Blue:
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Im not stupid enough to give you everything I have, when you have 27,000 salespeople.
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quoted in Randall E. Stross Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing
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