Item 5356613 94/01/18 05:24 From: DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INTERNET# COMM INTERNET GWY Subject: NEXTSTEP for PA-RISC at HP's 712 unveiling FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 NeXT DEMONSTRATES NEXTSTEP FOR HP PA-RISC AT HP'S UNVEILING OF NEW 712 MODEL WORKSTATION NEW YORK-January 18, 1994-NeXT Computer, Inc. today demonstrated an alpha version of NEXTSTEP for HP's PA-RISC workstations at HP's introduction of its new 712 workstation. Through its Object*Enterprise relationship, NeXT and HP are creating a new generation of business solutions designed to increase productivity and targeted by NeXT and HP for the financial services industry. NEXTSTEP Release 3.2, NeXT's object-oriented software, will be available for the HP Apollo 9000 Model 712, 715, 725, 735 and 755 workstations in mid-1994. With this new release, users and developers experience the functionality they already enjoy on the NEXTSTEP for Intel processors platform. By virtue of the NEXTSTEP Object Frameworks, applications developed on Intel or Motorola based NeXTstations can be ported to the PA-RISC workstations with no source code changes. For example, sophisticated third-party products such as Mesa from Athena Design, WriteUp and AFS Trade from Anderson Financial Services, as well as Concurrence and Diagram from Lighthouse Design were recompiled from the Intel to the HP PA-RISC platform in less than one hour with no changes in source code, demonstrating how portable NEXTSTEP applications are across multiple architectures. HP and NeXT's Object*Enterprise provides a client/server solution based on object-oriented technology and targeted by NeXT and HP for the financial services industry. Object* Enterprise enables customers to develop and deploy object-oriented applications across the enterprise, delivering state-of-the-art desktop to data center solutions. NeXT on HP Currently, NeXT is shipping PDO-Portable Distributed Objects-for HP-UX. PDO is the first industry product to provide a heterogeneous client/server framework based on objects, and does so by extending the same seamless object model and messaging architecture that NEXTSTEP customers already use for local and distributed objects. NeXT's PDO for HP 9000 business servers running HP-UX 9.0 provides a framework for developing and deploying object-oriented applications across the enterprise, delivering state-of-the-art desktop to data center solutions. NeXT is also shipping a beta version of NetInfo for HP-UX. Developed by NeXT and Xedoc, the leading portable NetInfo consulting group, NetInfo for HP-UX is a flexible and extensible database system for distributed system and network administration. NeXT's NetInfo for the Series 800 allows centralized management of NEXTSTEP-based clients and servers. NetInfo provides management capabilities that interoperate with HP OpenView network and system management environment. Finally, HP's desktop computers provide a broad range of choices for client systems, ranging from the Vectra line of Intel-based PC products to the PA-RISC-based Series 700 workstations. Object*Enterprise To Meet Customer Demands "HP listens to its customers, and our financial services customers want NEXTSTEP," said Willem P. Roelandts, vice president and general manager of HP's Computer Systems Organization. "Several major HP customers have selected NEXTSTEP as their strategic solution for financial service application development and deployment. The HP/NeXT solution embodies innovative technology and world-class, enterprise computing experience." "The combination of HP's advanced workstation and server products and NEXTSTEP will give our customers a truly scalable architecture," said Steven P, Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT. "Our goal is to provide a complete object-oriented foundation for client/server computing that spans the enterprise. This is an excellent alliance for NeXT." "Object * Enterprise clearly addresses our need to deploy applications quickly by combining the sophisticated development power of objects with an intuitive user interface for our non technical user," said Craig Heimark managing director of Swiss Bank Corporation. "With NEXTSTEP and distributed objects running across HP's complete product family, we have a powerful, scalable, distributed computing platform that may well become our strategic architecture for the '90s." HP 9000 Workstations and Servers HP 9000 workstations and servers have consistently led the industry in performance for both technical and business-computing standard benchmarks. These high-speed systems, which are crucial in the financial services industry, are well suited for business-critical financial modeling and simulation programs, market data dissemination, decision support suites and risk management products. The object-orientation of NEXTSTEP will provide the benefits of rapid application development and deployment on the Series 700 workstations. High availability features of the Series 800 servers provides a secure computing environment for large database operations and serves as gateways to global multi-vendor networks. The addition of PDO allows access to enterprise-wide applications from the desktop and faster integration of existing and future client/server applications. 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. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. PA-RISC means Precision Architecture-reduced-instruction-set computing. HP-UX is based on and is compatible with USL's UNIX operating system. It also complies with X/Open's XPG3, POSIX 1003.1, FIPS 151-1 and SVID2 interface specifications. =END=