Item    9996205                 93/06/23        06:41
 From:   CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET#    Internet Gateway
 Subject: NeXT Announces Hiring of William Weseman: VP of North
         American Sales

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 Contact:
 Karen Logsdon
 NeXT Computer, Inc.
 415/780-3786

 WESEMANN JOINS NeXT AS V.P. OF NORTH AMERICAN FIELD SALES

 SAN FRANCISCO, CA  - June 23, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today
 announced that William Wesemann has joined as vice president of North
 American field sales.  Wesemann will be responsible for managing
 NeXT's direct sales force, which sells to customers, value-added
 resellers and system integrators.  Wesemann has more than 12 years of
 experience in the software industry.

 "Bill's impressive experience in the software marketplace will help
 NeXT leverage its sales force as we expand our base of strategic
 customers, value-added resellers and system integrators," said Warren
 Weiss, vice president North American sales and marketing of NeXT.
 "Bill will instantly help us better manage the key relationships
 necessary to our sales success."

 "I look forward to introducing NeXT and NEXTSTEP to a broad range of
 leading companies," said Wesemann.  "For the past several years, I
 have lived in the client/server world and I believe NEXTSTEP is a key
 player and a vastly superior solution for developing and deploying
 mission-critical custom applications."

 Prior to joining NeXT, Wesemann was vice president at KnowledgeWare
 Corporation, a $125 million CASE and client/server software
 development tools company based in Atlanta, Georgia.  At
 KnowledgeWare, he was responsible for establishing alternative
 channel sales for client/server development tools and had sales
 responsibilities for client/server tools.  He also served as vice
 president of sales and marketing for Viewpoint Systems, a company
 providing client/server development tools for Windows 3.0 which was
 later acquired by KnowledgeWare.

 About Next

 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, 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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