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Item 5356613 94/01/18 05:24
From: DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INTERNET# COMM INTERNET GWY
Subject: NEXTSTEP for PA-RISC at HP's 712 unveiling
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415/780-3786
NeXT DEMONSTRATES NEXTSTEP FOR HP PA-RISC AT
HP'S UNVEILING OF NEW 712 MODEL WORKSTATION
NEW YORK-January 18, 1994-NeXT Computer, Inc. today demonstrated an
alpha version of NEXTSTEP for HP's PA-RISC workstations at HP's
introduction of its new 712 workstation. Through its
Object*Enterprise relationship, NeXT and HP are creating a new
generation of business solutions designed to increase productivity
and targeted by NeXT and HP for the financial services industry.
NEXTSTEP Release 3.2, NeXT's object-oriented software, will be
available for the HP Apollo 9000 Model 712, 715, 725, 735 and 755
workstations in mid-1994.
With this new release, users and developers experience the
functionality they already enjoy on the NEXTSTEP for Intel processors
platform. By virtue of the NEXTSTEP Object Frameworks, applications
developed on Intel or Motorola based NeXTstations can be ported to
the PA-RISC workstations with no source code changes. For example,
sophisticated third-party products such as Mesa from Athena Design,
WriteUp and AFS Trade from Anderson Financial Services, as well as
Concurrence and Diagram from Lighthouse Design were recompiled from
the Intel to the HP PA-RISC platform in less than one hour with no
changes in source code, demonstrating how portable NEXTSTEP
applications are across multiple architectures.
HP and NeXT's Object*Enterprise provides a client/server solution
based on object-oriented technology and targeted by NeXT and HP for
the financial services industry. Object* Enterprise enables
customers to develop and deploy object-oriented applications across
the enterprise, delivering state-of-the-art desktop to data center
solutions.
NeXT on HP
Currently, NeXT is shipping PDO-Portable Distributed Objects-for
HP-UX. 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 is also shipping a beta version of NetInfo for HP-UX. 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. NeXT's NetInfo for the
Series 800 allows centralized management of NEXTSTEP-based clients
and servers. NetInfo provides management capabilities that
interoperate with HP OpenView network and system management
environment.
Finally, HP's desktop computers provide a broad range of choices for
client systems, ranging from the Vectra line of Intel-based PC
products to the PA-RISC-based Series 700 workstations.
Object*Enterprise To Meet Customer Demands
"HP listens to its customers, and our financial services customers
want NEXTSTEP," said Willem P. Roelandts, vice president and general
manager of HP's Computer Systems Organization. "Several major HP
customers have selected NEXTSTEP as their strategic solution for
financial service application development and deployment. The
HP/NeXT solution embodies innovative technology and world-class,
enterprise computing experience."
"The combination of HP's advanced workstation and server products and
NEXTSTEP will give our customers a truly scalable architecture," said
Steven P, Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT. "Our goal is to provide a
complete object-oriented foundation for client/server computing that
spans the enterprise. This is an excellent alliance for NeXT."
"Object * Enterprise clearly addresses our need to deploy
applications quickly by combining the sophisticated development power
of objects with an intuitive user interface for our non technical
user," said Craig Heimark managing director of Swiss Bank
Corporation. "With NEXTSTEP and distributed objects running across
HP's complete product family, we have a powerful, scalable,
distributed computing platform that may well become our strategic
architecture for the '90s."
HP 9000 Workstations and Servers
HP 9000 workstations and servers have consistently led the industry
in performance for both technical and business-computing standard
benchmarks. These high-speed systems, which are crucial in the
financial services industry, are well suited for business-critical
financial modeling and simulation programs, market data
dissemination, decision support suites and risk management products.
The object-orientation of NEXTSTEP will provide the benefits of rapid
application development and deployment on the Series 700
workstations.
High availability features of the Series 800 servers provides a
secure computing environment for large database operations and serves
as gateways to global multi-vendor networks. The addition of PDO
allows access to enterprise-wide applications from the desktop and
faster integration of existing and future client/server applications.
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.
PA-RISC means Precision Architecture-reduced-instruction-set
computing.
HP-UX is based on and is compatible with USL's UNIX operating system.
It also complies with X/Open's XPG3, POSIX 1003.1, FIPS 151-1 and
SVID2 interface specifications.
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