Item    1567985                 93/07/21        07:02 
From:  CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET#    Internet Gateway 
Subject: NeXT Announces New VP and CFO: Dominique Trempont

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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



TREMPONT JOINS NeXT AS CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND VICE PRESIDENT OF GENERAL
AND ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS

REDWOOD CITY, CA- July 21, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that
Dominique Trempont has joined as chief financial officer and vice president of
G & A.  Trempont will be responsible for managing finance, as well as general
and administrative operations for NeXT.

"NeXT's challenge over the next year is execution and Dominique's experience
will add great value to that process," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO
of NeXT.  "Dominique was instrumental in the profitable growth of several
business units during his 14 years at Raychem Corp."

"Customers convinced me that NEXTSTEP solves the information system bottleneck
in corporate America by integrating office automation and corporate software
development," said Trempont.  "NeXT has outstanding technology and a first
class management team willing to make things happen."

Prior to joining NeXT, Trempont was director of finance administration for 
Raychem Corp.'s Electronics Group, a $450 million business.  While at Raychem,
he was instrumental in the financial turnaround of several of the Fortune 300
company's divisions.  Most recently, he helped to successfully reposition the
Electronics Group from defense to commercial markets.  He also has business
experience in Asia, Europe and Latin America business.

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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