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Item 1449187 93/06/15 15:46
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: NeXT Announces Object-Oriented Software for Enterprise-wide Client/Server Computing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Marilyn Kilinski
Ketchum Public Relations 212/536-8865
NEXT ANNOUNCES OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE FOR ENTERPRISE-WIDE CLIENT/SERVER
COMPUTING
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 15, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced its
strategy for enabling organizations to deploy object-oriented solutions on an
enterprise-wide basis. NeXT announced a new product, Portable Distributed
Objects (PDO). Using PDO, NeXT will make client/server computing easier by
providing a distributed object-oriented foundation.
The goal of PDO is to provide an object-oriented foundation to client/server
computing and enable customers to build company-wide custom applications using
objects across the enterprise. PDO will also increase interoperability
between NEXTSTEP clients and server environments, and between NEXTSTEP and
emerging distributed computing and object-oriented standards. PDO will
further NEXTSTEP's leading position as a provider of object-oriented
solutions.
Using PDO, organizations can build financial, customer service, network
management and other complex systems in which many computers provide
specialized services, such as compute intensive servers, to a single
application. With PDO, developers can encapsulate complex network computing
resources in reusable software objects which developers can easily use to
build sophisticated applications. These applications then enjoy all of the
rapid time to market, ease of use and ease of modification benefits provided
by NEXTSTEP.
"PDO allows us to make client-server computing easier and provide our
customers with increased benefits such as reducing time to market for
enterprise-wide custom applications," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of
NeXT. "We are working with our industry partners, Hewlett-Packard and Data
General to develop and promote the strategic advantages of this product which
allows developers to create NEXTSTEP applications having the ability to scale
and run as fast as the fastest computer on the network."
Object-oriented productivity for enterprise computing
Currently, NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software runs on industry-standard
Intel 486- and Pentium-based PCs and delivers support for distributed, object-
oriented programming across networks of NEXTSTEP-based computers. Through
NEXTSTEP's distributed object technology, objects cannot only transparently
send messages to other objects running within the same application or on the
same machine, but also send messages to objects hosted on other computers in
the network.
With NEXTSTEP's new PDO technology, developers can now provide the benefits of
an object-oriented approach to distributed computing throughout a
heterogeneous network. A trading system, for example, could include a custom
analytic object running on the fastest server on the network, enabling traders
with NEXTSTEP client systems to improve their ability to make real-time
buy/sell decisions.
"PDO brings us the best of both worlds for servers," according to John
Keazirian, executive vice president at Chicago Research & Trading Group, Ltd.
(CRT). "It allows us to extend the rapid development environment beyond the
NEXTSTEP client and lets server machines continue to offer the high range of
availability, data integrity, network management tools, process controls and
security capabilities that our business requires."
"Our clients have told us that PDO is key to their enterprise computing
strategy," said Ronald L. Skates, president and chief executive officer of
Data General.
"The object oriented benefits of NEXTSTEP and PDO allow users to exploit the
power of Data General's AViiON servers in custom distributed client/server
applications."
PDO benefits users and developers
For users, PDO reduces the time to market for complex custom applications,
provides customers with applications that can be easily modified to meet their
needs. It also enables them to take advantage of network-based third-party
ObjectWare which is reusable network-based objects created for critical,
computational, data or server intensive tasks such as telecommunications, data
feed distribution, custom analytics, multimedia distribution and rendering.
For developers, PDO provides a mechanism for extending NEXTSTEP's powerful
object-oriented metaphor to include server-based computational resources. PDO
enables developers to create objects which hide the complexity of accessing
those network resources, allowing users of the objects to concentrate on their
application, and not distributed computing details.
Developing products to meet industry standards
A key component of the PDO strategy is openness and adherence to existing and
emerging industry computing standards, such as OMG's CORBA (Common Object
Request Broker), DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) and DME (Distributed
Management Environment). Currently, NeXT's intention is to provide customers
with a heterogeneous distributed object solution today and work with partners
to define PDO's interoperability with various standards as they emerge.
Availability
PDO on HP and DG platforms is expected to be available by the end of 1993.
Pricing will be announced upon release.
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.
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