Item    4951652                 93/06/15        16:15 
From:  CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET#    Internet Gateway 
Subject: NeXT Announces Second Edition of ObjectWare Catalog

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Marilyn Kilinski
Ketchum Public Relations 212/536-8865


NEXT ANNOUNCES SECOND EDITION OF OBJECTWARE CATALOG

New catalog features greater number of objects in more categories

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 15, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. announces the second
edition of ObjectWare, the industry's only catalog of reusable objects for
NEXTSTEP.  The ObjectWare catalog contains 1412 objects from more than 100
independent object designers.

"Object-oriented technology is leading the software revolution of the '90s and
NEXTSTEP developers who are using and creating objects are receiving the
benefits," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc.


"Our object-oriented architecture provides an opportunity to create reusable
objects that enable customers to work more efficiently and effectively.  In
the process, we are creating a new, sub-industry, called ObjectWare."

Objects are reusable software applications that sit between traditional system
software and traditional application software. They are beneficial because
customers can reuse them to create custom applications two to five times
faster than traditional methods.


The Object Marketplace

The trend toward object-oriented software is especially evident in the
financial  services, telecommunications and healthcare markets because
customers in these markets must develop, deploy, maintain and enhance custom
applications quickly and efficiently.

"Object-oriented technology is rapidly changing the way systems are developed
today and the only drawback to this powerful technology has been the discovery
of industrially-important, reusable objects," said Frank King, president,
Pencom Software.

"Throughout our re-engineering projects, we have discovered objects for our
clients that provided additional functionality.  So we took the best work from
our projects, enhanced it and created three packages for Database Kit
developers," he said.

Reusable software objects providing functionality, flexibility and
maintainability are  listed in the catalog by category and include some of the
following features:

 - Communication Objects & Device Drivers that enable customers to send and
receive information such as faxes or multimedia objects, and provide
connection to devices such as scanners and printers;

 - Database Systems & Objects that allow users to design and create databases
for custom applications, as well as implement complex reports from a database;

 - Development Tools & Utilities for enabling applications to be developed
more quickly and easily;

 - Financial & Data Analysis Tools to allow for the extraction, enhancement
and analysis of raw market data and provide users with an interface to digital
market data services;

 - Graphics and 3D Objects that enable users to grab video frames and
manipulate high-quality color images.

 - Information Display Objects that allow customers to display information
such as contour plots of two-dimensional grid data;

 - Networking & Telecommunications for building distributed mainframe and
network applications;

 - Sound, Music and Multimedia to add text-to-speech capabilities or
traditional audio dictation and transcription functionality to applications;

 - User Interface Objects allow users to scroll both horizontally and
vertically at the same time and implement object dragging and dropping between
custom applications;

Pricing and Availability

The ObjectWare catalog is available now for $12.00 can be ordered by calling 
1-800-TRY-NeXT.  All objects listed in the catalog are available through their
respective developers.


NeXT Computer, Inc.

NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software
for industry-standard computer architectures.  Customers use NEXTSTEP to
develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and
shrink-wrapped software.  Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with
offices throughout  the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-
wide, object-oriented productivity environments.

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NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer,
Inc.   All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.



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