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The big bakeoff between NeXT and Be was held at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto on December 10,
NeXT和Be的終極對決于12月10日在帕洛奧圖的花園庭院酒店舉行，
in front of Amelio, Hancock, and six other Apple executives.
評委包括阿梅里奧、漢考克和另外6位蘋果髙管。
NeXT went first, with Avie Tevanian demonstrating the software while Jobs displayed his hypnotizing salesmanship.
NeXT先上，由阿維·泰瓦尼安展示軟件，而喬布斯盡情發(fā)揮他那催眠術般的銷售技巧。
They showed how the software could play four video clips on the screen at once, create multimedia, and link to the Internet.
他們展示了這套軟件如何在屏幕上同時播放4段錄像，如何制作多媒體文件，如何連接互聯(lián)網(wǎng)。
"Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio.
“史蒂夫推銷起NeXT操作系統(tǒng)來讓人眼花繚亂，”阿梅里奧說，
"He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Olivier as Macbeth."
“他贊美著那些功能和強項，就好像他在描述奧利弗·斯通飾演麥克白是如何出色。”
Gassée came in afterward, but he acted as if he had the deal in his hand.
之后加西上場，他的表現(xiàn)就像是勝券在握一樣。
He provided no new presentation.
他沒有作新的演示，
He simply said that the Apple team knew the capabilities of the Be OS and asked if they had any further questions. It was a short session.
只是說蘋果團隊知道BeOS的性能，問是不是還有其他問題。整個過程很短。
While Gassée was presenting, Jobs and Tevanian walked the streets of Palo Alto.
在加西作推介時，喬布斯和泰瓦尼安在帕洛奧圖的街上散步。
After a while they bumped into one of the Apple executives who had been at the meetings.
過了一會兒，他們碰上了之前在評選現(xiàn)場的一位蘋果高管。
"You're going to win this," he told them.
“你們會贏的。”他告訴他們。
Tevanian later said that this was no surprise: "We had better technology, we had a solution that was complete, and we had Steve."
泰瓦尼安后來說，那并不出乎意料。“我們有更好的技術，我們有完整的解決方案，而且我們有史蒂夫。”
