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Item 0380705 94/03/21 06:38
From: DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: Announcing PDO on DEC OSF/1 for Alpha AXP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415-780-3786
or
Karen Quatromoni
Digital Equipment Corporation
508-264-5358
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT AND NeXT ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT TO
RELEASE PDO SOFTWARE ON DEC OSF/1 FOR ALPHA AXP
Maynard, MA-March 21, 1994-NeXT Computer, Inc.'s new release of
its PDO software, the portable version of of NeXT's distributed
objects framework, will be available on Digital Equipment
Corporation's DEC OSF/1 operating system, Digital and NeXT
announced today.
Portable Distributed Objects software enables creation of a
powerful client/server framework based on objects by extending the
seamless object model and messaging architecture used by NEXTSTEP
customers to Digital's Alpha AXP family of 64-bit servers.
Currently, NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software, is certified
on members of Digital's Intel-based DECpc personal computer
family. The addition of PDO on the DEC OSF/1 operating system
will enable Digital to deliver entire client/server configurations
using NeXT programming environment, and to participate in
heterogeneous networks using PDO and NEXTSTEP products.
Industry's Most Powerful Servers
"Having the PDO object-based framework on DEC OSF/1 and Alpha AXP
will enable NEXTSTEP users to take advantage of the industry's
most powerful servers," said Bob Supnik, vice president and
technical director of engineering at Digital. "This agreement
strengthens our capability to meet our customers' client/server
needs. We look forward to integrating this with our COM/OLE
environment."
"We are excited that Digital is joining NeXT's growing list of
enterprise partners," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of
NeXT Computer, Inc. "This demonstrates further market acceptance
of NEXTSTEP as the industry-standard, object-oriented platform."
Availability of PDO Release of 2.0 software on the DEC OSF/1
operating system is planned for mid-1994. PDO software extends
NeXT's object-oriented programming system to servers from
difference manufacturers, giving application developers in
mixed-vendor, client/server environments all of the benefits of
object-oriented technology of software, and improved
maintainability and reliability of applications.
Alpha AXP is Digital's family of 64-bit workstations and servers,
based on the world's most powerful series of RISC-based
microprocessors. Ranging from workstations and personal computers
under $5,000 to large, multiprocessing enterprise servers, Alpha
AXP systems are competitive at every price point.
About Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open
client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated
worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha AXP
platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together
with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help
organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.
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, with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves
customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity
environments.
# # # #
DEC, DECpc, and AXP are trademarks of Digital Equipment
Corporation. NeXT, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, PDO and Portable
Distributed Objects are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer,
Inc. OSF is a registered trademark of the Open Software
Foundation, Inc.
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