Item    2075225                 94/05/25        06:24
From:   DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INET#     Internet Gateway
Subject: NEXTSTEP Customers Selected as Finalists in DB/EXPO Competition
Cc: news_from_next_ext@NeXT.COM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415-780-3786
or
Charlotte Penner
Copithorne & Bellows
415-541-0873



THREE NEXTSTEP CUSTOMER SITES SELECTED AS FINALISTS

IN DB/EXPO '94 REALWARE AWARD COMPETITION

Winners To Be Announced At DB/EXPO Event May 25

SAN FRANCISCO-May 24, 1994-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced

that three of its customer sites have been named finalists in the

DB/EXPO '94 RealWare Awards competition.  The NeXT customer site

finalists and the categories of their applications are:


Customer Site                    Category


Mount Clemens General Hospital   Enterprise Client/Server

Chrysler Financial Corporation   Improving Application Development
                                 Productivity Using Object-Oriented

                                 Technology

Quest International              Improving Application Development

                                 Productivity Using Object-Oriented

                                 Technology


Winners will be announced in an awards ceremony at DB/EXPO on

Wednesday evening, May 25.

Co-sponsored by Intel Corp., the RealWare Awards program is

designed to allow companies exhibiting at DB/EXPO an opportunity

to demonstrate their proven business solutions that have made

innovative use of database, client/server and related information

technology to solve a bonafide business solution.

Norm DeNardi, DB/EXPO founder and chief executive officer stated,

"What's unique about this awards program is that it mandates that

exhibitors submit proven applications-not applications that are

still in R & D."  Among the criteria, exhibitors are asked to

clearly demonstrate how their products are being used by customers

to reduce costs, improve information sharing, increase

competitiveness and produce measurable business benefits.

"It's nice to see the industry recognizing innovative companies

who are taking the lead and gaining competitive business

advantages with object technology and client/server computing,"

said Rick Jackson, director of product marketing at NeXT Computer,

Inc.

NEXTSTEP Enables Client/Server and Rapid Application Development

NEXTSTEP, the award winning object-oriented operating system

software from NeXT, is used by Fortune 1000 corporations and

government organizations to rapidly develop and deploy mission

critical business applications.  NEXTSTEP's business value is in

simplifying and speeding the process of developing complex

client/server software by providing the industry's first

object-oriented framework for distributed computing.


For customers like RealWare Award finalist Chrysler Financial, the

business benefits of using NEXTSTEP are clear.  Developers are

able to build better applications faster which enables users to

provide better service to Chrysler's retail and wholesale

customers.  With NEXTSTEP's multitasking, the users also can serve

more customers at a time.

In its third release, NEXTSTEP runs on hundreds of industry

standard Intel-based PCs, and will soon run native on

Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC workstations and Sun's SPARC

workstations.  NEXTSTEP's Application Environment also will be

integrated into SunSoft's Solaris system software as part of the

OpenStep initiative.


About NeXT Computer, Inc.

NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP

object-oriented software for industry-standard computer

architectures.  Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object

environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide,

client/server applications.  NeXT is headquartered in Redwood

City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris,
Munich and Tokyo.

# # # #

NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT

Computer, Inc.  All other trademarks mentioned belong to their

respective owners.




=END=