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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
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disastrous state of the company’s financials. They were still spending money like crazy, as exemplified by their new offices facing a marina in
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Redwood City and its free-standing staircase designed by I.M. Pei’s architectural firm. But they were hardly selling: their revenues for 1990 were
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as low as $28 million (in comparison, Sun made $2.5 billion that same year). In addition, NeXT’s deal with IBM was canceled, as it proved difficult for two
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such radically different companies to cooperate. Steve was still suspicious of Big Blue:
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I’m 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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