Item    0380705                 94/03/21        06:38
From:   DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INET#     Internet Gateway
Subject: Announcing PDO on DEC OSF/1 for Alpha AXP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415-780-3786
or
Karen Quatromoni
Digital Equipment Corporation
508-264-5358


DIGITAL EQUIPMENT AND NeXT ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT TO
RELEASE PDO SOFTWARE ON DEC OSF/1 FOR ALPHA AXP

Maynard, MA-March 21, 1994-NeXT Computer, Inc.'s new release of

its PDO software, the portable version of of NeXT's distributed

objects framework, will be available on Digital Equipment

Corporation's DEC OSF/1 operating system, Digital and NeXT

announced today.

Portable Distributed Objects software enables creation of a

powerful client/server framework based on objects by extending the

seamless object model and messaging architecture used by NEXTSTEP

customers to Digital's Alpha AXP family of 64-bit servers.

Currently, NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software, is certified

on members of Digital's Intel-based DECpc personal computer

family.  The addition of PDO on the DEC OSF/1 operating system

will enable Digital to deliver entire client/server configurations

using NeXT programming environment, and to participate in

heterogeneous networks using PDO and NEXTSTEP products.

Industry's Most Powerful Servers

"Having the PDO object-based framework on DEC OSF/1 and Alpha AXP

will enable NEXTSTEP users to take advantage of the industry's

most powerful servers," said Bob Supnik, vice president and

technical director of engineering at Digital.  "This agreement

strengthens our capability to meet our customers' client/server

needs.  We look forward to integrating this with our COM/OLE

environment."

"We are excited that Digital is joining NeXT's growing list of

enterprise partners," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of

NeXT Computer, Inc.  "This demonstrates further market acceptance

of NEXTSTEP as the industry-standard, object-oriented platform."

Availability of PDO Release of 2.0 software on the DEC OSF/1

operating system is planned for mid-1994.  PDO software extends

NeXT's object-oriented programming system to servers from

difference manufacturers, giving application developers in
mixed-vendor, client/server environments all of the benefits of

object-oriented technology of software, and improved

maintainability and reliability of applications.

Alpha AXP is Digital's family of 64-bit workstations and servers,

based on the world's most powerful series of RISC-based

microprocessors.  Ranging from workstations and personal computers

under $5,000 to large, multiprocessing enterprise servers, Alpha

AXP systems are competitive at every price point.

About Digital Equipment Corporation


Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open

client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated

worldwide information systems.  Digital's scalable Alpha AXP

platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together

with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help

organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.

About 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, with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves

customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity

environments.

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DEC, DECpc, and AXP are trademarks of Digital Equipment

Corporation.   NeXT, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, PDO and Portable

Distributed Objects are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer,

Inc.  OSF is a registered trademark of the Open Software

Foundation, Inc.




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