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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415/780-3786
NeXT SHIPS PDO PORTABLE DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS
FOR HP 9000 SERVERS
Customers gain state-of-the-art desktop to data center solution
LAS VEGAS November 15, 1993 NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced it
is shipping PDO Portable Distributed Objects for Hewlett-Packard
Company's HP 9000 servers. PDO is the first product to be released
from the companies' recently announced Object 7 Enterprise
relationship. Object 7 Enterprise combines NEXTSTEP, NeXT's
object-oriented software, with the HP 9000 product family, providing
a scalable solution for client/server development based on a common
object-oriented framework.
NeXT also announces that it plans to ship NetInfo for HP-UX in the
coming month as the second product from Object 7 Enterprise.
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.
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 continues to lead the industry in object-oriented solutions
by extending its object model and object messaging architecture to
server environments with PDO," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and
CEO of NeXT. "We are building the foundation upon which customers
can quickly and easily develop sophisticated client/server applications
that scale to meet the needs of the enterprise, not just small
workgroups. We believe providing a uniform and seamless object
model in a networked environment is the key to unlocking the benefits
of client/server computing."
"PDO is a major step in enabling our customers to develop and deploy
object-oriented, client-server applications across the enterprise,"
said Ruann Ernst, marketing director of HP's Financial Services
Industry Group. "Customers, especially in the financial services
industry, will benefit from the combination of NeXT's advanced
object-oriented framework and HP's expertise in desktop to data
center products and worldwide service and support."
Customers attest to PDO's productivity for enterprise computing
With PDO, The First National Bank of Chicago will be better able
to take full advantage of their client/server architecture by
off-loading compute intensive processes to the computers best suited
for the task. "PDO allows us to run our object-oriented applications
on the fastest systems available," said Matt Peron, officer at The
First National Bank of Chicago. "Our processing demand is increasing
rapidly, particularly in the derivatives area, and PDO will enable
us to keep up with the demand."
"Swiss Bank Corporation plans to use PDO to run theoretical models
for trading, enabling traders with NEXTSTEP client systems to
improve their ability to make real-time investment decisions. With
PDO, the location of the custom analytic object is independent of
the application design and deployment," said Dwight Koop, executive
director, Swiss Bank Corporation.
According to John Keazirian, executive vice president at NationsBanc-CRT,
"PDO brings us the best of both worlds for servers because 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."
Since PDO extends the object-oriented programming paradigm to
heterogeneous servers, developers creating applications in this
environment enjoy all of the benefits of object-oriented programming,
such as fewer lines of code in development, higher reusability of
software and greater maintainability and reliability of software
systems while tapping the performance, centrality of data, and
other features of high powered enterprise servers.
Developing products to meet industry standards
Currently, NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software, runs on
industry-standard Intel 486- and Pentiumb-based PCs and delivers
support for distributed, object-oriented programming across networks
of NEXTSTEP-based computers. With NEXTSTEP's object technology,
objects transparently send messages to other objects running within
the same application. NEXTSTEP's distributed object technology
allows the same transparent messaging to occur between objects
resident in different applications, whether the applications are
running on the same machine or across the network.
This messaging allows greater reusability of objects, by providing
a framework for applications to share common objects within a
networked environment. PDO provides even greater reusability of
software, by allowing these objects to exist in non-NEXTSTEP
environments, such as an HP 9000 series 800 server running the
HP-UX operating system.
Today, PDO provides interoperability between NEXTSTEP clients and
server environments. In the future, PDO will allow interoperability
between NEXTSTEP and emerging distributed computing standards, such
as OMG's CORBA (Common Object Request Broker) and DCE (Distributed
Computing Environment).
"As part of the NeXT/HP Object 7 Enterprise initiative to bring
object-orientation to enterprise computing, we plan to work together
to define a strategy for interoperability at the object level,"
said Rick Jackson, director of product marketing at NeXT.
Pricing and Availability
PDO for HP servers as part of the Object7Enterprise suite of solutions
is shipping. PDO Release 1.0 for HP-UX 9.0 has tiered pricing based
upon HP's server software pricing model. PDO for Departmental
Servers is $2,500, for Branch Servers is $5,000 and for Corporate
Servers is $10,000.
Product DescriptionServer TypeList Price
PDO Release 1.0 for HP-UX 9.0HP Workstation Server Model 715 or $2,500
Department Servers725; Series 800 Models F or G Class Server.
PDO Release 1.0 for HP-UX 9.0HP Workstation Server Model 735 or $5,000
Branch Servers755; Series 800 Models H or I Class Server.
PDO Release 1.0 for HP-UX 9.0HP 9000 Corporate Business Servers.$10,000
Corporate Servers
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, and with offices throughout the world,
NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented
productivity environments.
About HP
Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Hewlett-Packard Company is the
third-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer
revenue in excess of $12 billion in its 1992 fiscal year.
Hewlett-Packard is an international manufacturer of measurement and
computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality
and support. The company's products and services are used in
industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education
in approximately 110 countries. HP has 94,900 employees and had
revenue of $16.4 billion in its 1992 fiscal year.
# # # #
NeXT, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, PDO, Portable Distributed Objects
and the PDO logo are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
HP-UX is based on and is compatible with USL's UNIX operating
system. It also complies with X/Open's XPG4; POSIX 1003.1, 1003.2,
1003.2a; FIPS 151-1; and SVID2 interface specifications.
UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories Inc. in
the US and other countries.
X/Open is a trademark of X/Open Company Limited in the UK and other
countries.