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Article: Steve Jobs takes another bite at Apple
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 6, 1997
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Well, Apple had to do something drastic, and buying NeXT
Software for $400m certainly fits the bill.
The failure last year of its Copland project was a terrible
disaster. Copland was to be the company's answer to Microsoft's
Windows 95, a new operating system to form the basis of its next
generation of Macintosh computers. When Copland went down the
drain, Apple's plans for the future went with it.
It's ironic, then, that to safeguard its future, Apple has
turned to an ex-employee who was once forced to leave because he
was thought to be holding the company back.
After Microsoft's Bill Gates, Steven P Jobs, the chairman and
CEO of NeXT Software, is the best-known figure in the entire ...