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Item 6408823 93/04/06 13:23
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: NeXTWORLD Magazine Announces First Awards for Best NeXTSTEP Products
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Dan Ruby Editor, NeXTWORLD Magazine 415-978-3191
NeXTWORLD MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES FIRST AWARDS FOR BEST NEXTSTEP PRODUCTS
Best of Breed Awards To Be Presented In 13 Product Categories
San Francisco, March 22, 1993 -- NeXTWORLD Magazine today announced that it
will honor outstanding accomplishment in NeXTSTEP product development when it
presents the NeXTWORLD Best of Breed Awards, or BoBs, on Monday, May 24, 1993.
The winners will be named at a gala awards ceremony featuring presentations by
NeXT CEO Steve Jobs and other NeXT community luminaries. The award winners
will meet the public at a general session during NeXTWORLD Expo, held here May
25-27, 1993.
"Third party developers have taken advantage of NeXTSTEP's outstanding
developer and user environment to produce a wealth of innovative products in
every category of business software, development tools, and peripherals," said
Daniel Ruby, editor-in-chief of NeXTWORLD Magazine. "With the BoB Awards, we
recognize high achievement by individual third parties, but also put a
spotlight on NeXTSTEP as the industry's premier object-oriented,
client/server operating system."
All NeXTSTEP products that are in wide-release beta testing by April 24 and
shipping in shrinkwrap by May 24 are eligible for considersation. Software
must operate under NeXTSTEP 3.0 or later and have announced plans for an Intel
80486 version.
The judging panel will consist of the NeXTWORLD editorial staff and
contributing editors. They will look for excellence in the following
categories:
- Document Creation - ObjectWare - Business Graphics - Financial Modeling -
Graphic Arts - Utilities - Information Managers - Peripherals - Database
Management
- Content and Information - Communications and Emulation
- Emerging Markets - Development and Authoring Tools
Special achievement awards will also be given for exemplary service to the
NeXT community, most innovative NeXTSTEP application, and outstanding use of
NeXTSTEP use at a customer site.
NeXTWORLD, a publication of the International Data Group, the world leader in
information services on information technology, is based in San Francisco,
where it publishes a bimonthly magazine and monthly newspaper for users of
NeXTSTEP computers.