You could indeed... But a budget PC with DOS was good enough, had hundreds of thousands of industry-standard apps, could be networked with any one of tens of corporate network servers, from Novell NetWare to 3Com 3+Share.
And most of all, you could equip an entire department of a dozen people with a PC each for the cost of a single NeXTstation.
And most of all, you could equip an entire department of a dozen people with a PC each for the cost of a single NeXTstation.