Item    7529263                 93/02/12        12:51 
From:  CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET#    Internet Gateway

For Immediate Release

Contact: Ron Seybold (512) 250-9023 (512) 331-3900 (fax)

AUSTIN, Texas - NeXT Computer's transition to a software-only supplier
fulfills PCI's projections for its new NeXTSTEP publication, NeXTReview. The
first news publication for the NeXTSTEP professional will make its debut at
the NeXTWorld Expo in May on the same day as NeXTSTEP 486. The event that NeXT
is using to mark its shipment date for the software will the first news
coverage designed around NeXTSTEP.

"I always saw NeXTSTEP as the driving force in NeXT's future," said Ron
Seybold, Executive Editor for the publication. "The NeXT hardware has a loyal
following, but the NeXTSTEP operating system has defined this marketplace."

"We see our readership as NeXTSTEP users; our pilot issue's front page called
our paper 'a news publication for the NeXTSTEP professional.' That's why we
planned our first issue around the NeXTSTEP 486 release."

News coverage of NeXTSTEP features, products and porting techniques will
dominate the publication's first issue. Articles on using NeXTSTEP's Database
Kit, porting applications to NeXTSTEP 486 and reviews of NeXTSTEP software are
ready to publish. Special columns on NeXTSTEP, the Objective C programming
language and object-oriented software design are also in hand.

Product news will follow NeXT's push onto other hardware environments. Product
releases for NeXTSTEP are being filed daily with the publication, developers
report that moving their software to the 486-PC platform is a matter of a
weekend's work.

"The NeXTSTEP community will start with customers and suppliers who've
invested in NeXT hardware, but its target is much broader than that," Seybold
said. "Every Risc workstation maker is a potential NeXTSTEP platform, and PCI
already publishes newspapers covering the top workstation markets and a strong
PC-based software publication, AutoCAD World. We'll be well-informed about
NeXTSTEP's new platforms, wherever they might be."

With more than 60,000 of its systems shipped in 1992 alone, NeXT clearly has
an installed customer base ready to support its NeXTSTEP plans. NeXTReview
will serve the information needs of those thousands of NeXT sites during the
transition from hardware. The newspaper will be a source of information about
those customers' operating system - the continuing investment those companies
must maintain.

Note to editors: PCI is a privately held publisher based in Austin, Texas
which has specialized in vendor-specific computer newspapers for more than 13
years.