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Item 2075225 94/05/25 06:24
From: DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: NEXTSTEP Customers Selected as Finalists in DB/EXPO Competition
Cc: news_from_next_ext@NeXT.COM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415-780-3786
or
Charlotte Penner
Copithorne & Bellows
415-541-0873
THREE NEXTSTEP CUSTOMER SITES SELECTED AS FINALISTS
IN DB/EXPO '94 REALWARE AWARD COMPETITION
Winners To Be Announced At DB/EXPO Event May 25
SAN FRANCISCO-May 24, 1994-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced
that three of its customer sites have been named finalists in the
DB/EXPO '94 RealWare Awards competition. The NeXT customer site
finalists and the categories of their applications are:
Customer Site Category
Mount Clemens General Hospital Enterprise Client/Server
Chrysler Financial Corporation Improving Application Development
Productivity Using Object-Oriented
Technology
Quest International Improving Application Development
Productivity Using Object-Oriented
Technology
Winners will be announced in an awards ceremony at DB/EXPO on
Wednesday evening, May 25.
Co-sponsored by Intel Corp., the RealWare Awards program is
designed to allow companies exhibiting at DB/EXPO an opportunity
to demonstrate their proven business solutions that have made
innovative use of database, client/server and related information
technology to solve a bonafide business solution.
Norm DeNardi, DB/EXPO founder and chief executive officer stated,
"What's unique about this awards program is that it mandates that
exhibitors submit proven applications-not applications that are
still in R & D." Among the criteria, exhibitors are asked to
clearly demonstrate how their products are being used by customers
to reduce costs, improve information sharing, increase
competitiveness and produce measurable business benefits.
"It's nice to see the industry recognizing innovative companies
who are taking the lead and gaining competitive business
advantages with object technology and client/server computing,"
said Rick Jackson, director of product marketing at NeXT Computer,
Inc.
NEXTSTEP Enables Client/Server and Rapid Application Development
NEXTSTEP, the award winning object-oriented operating system
software from NeXT, is used by Fortune 1000 corporations and
government organizations to rapidly develop and deploy mission
critical business applications. NEXTSTEP's business value is in
simplifying and speeding the process of developing complex
client/server software by providing the industry's first
object-oriented framework for distributed computing.
For customers like RealWare Award finalist Chrysler Financial, the
business benefits of using NEXTSTEP are clear. Developers are
able to build better applications faster which enables users to
provide better service to Chrysler's retail and wholesale
customers. With NEXTSTEP's multitasking, the users also can serve
more customers at a time.
In its third release, NEXTSTEP runs on hundreds of industry
standard Intel-based PCs, and will soon run native on
Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC workstations and Sun's SPARC
workstations. NEXTSTEP's Application Environment also will be
integrated into SunSoft's Solaris system software as part of the
OpenStep initiative.
About NeXT Computer, Inc.
NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP
object-oriented software for industry-standard computer
architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object
environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide,
client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood
City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris,
Munich and Tokyo.
# # # #
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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