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Item 1604198 94/05/18 12:07
From: DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: NeXT AND HP SHIP BETA VERSION OF NEXTSTEP FOR HP PA-RISC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415-780-3786
or
Lynne Hanson
Hewlett-Packard Company
408-447-1415
NeXT AND HP SHIP BETA VERSION OF NEXTSTEP FOR HP PA-RISC;
HP TO PRELOAD PRODUCT FOR LARGE CUSTOMERS
HP and NeXT broaden relationship to include new market
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - May 18, 1994 - NeXT Computer, Inc. and
Hewlett-Packard Company announced today the shipping of the beta
version of NEXTSTEP for HP's PA-RISC workstations. NEXTSTEP
Release 3.2, NeXT's object-oriented operating system software,
will ship for the HP 9000 Model 712, 715, 725, 735 and 755
workstations this summer. Upon customer request, HP will preload
the software on selected workstations for large deployments.
With the release of this product, the two companies have also
announced plans to broaden their strategic relationship beyond the
financial services market first targeted by the Object7Enterprise
alliance, to now include the telecommunications market.
"Our move to broaden the relationship with NeXT to the
telecommunications market is a natural evolution for us," said
Willem P. Roelandts, senior vice president and general manager of
HP's Computer Systems Organization. "Two of the key areas being
addressed to leverage the strengths of HP and NeXT in object
technology are network management and customer care."
One of the customers who will benefit from the additional NeXT/HP
focus on telecommunications is McCaw Cellular Communications,
which is already standardizing on NEXTSTEP for key customer
service applications. "Having NEXTSTEP for HP PA-RISC gives us
tremendous flexibility in building scalable object-oriented
solutions for our business, now that we have the option to use
high-performance RISC workstations," said Jonathan Weeks,
technical architect at McCaw Cellular Communications.
NeXT and HP Deliver Object7Enterprise Products
NEXTSTEP for HP's PA-RISC completes the delivery of desktop to
data center solutions being delivered as part of
Object7Enterprise, the relationship the two companies formed in
May 1993. Object7Enterprise was designed to provide a
client/server solution based on object-oriented technology,
enabling customers to develop and deploy object-oriented
applications across the enterprise.
"NeXT and HP are delivering right on schedule what we promised a
year ago: NEXTSTEP objects on HP's fast RISC workstations and
servers," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer,
Inc. "This combination gives our customers a truly scalable
object-oriented architecture today."
NEXTSTEP for HP PA-RISC is a complete port of the NEXTSTEP
operating system currently shipping on Intel processors, including
the HP Vectra line of personal computers. Also in beta is
NEXTSTEP Developer, the complete graphical object-oriented
development environment that enables the rapid development of
client/server applications. By virtue of the NEXTSTEP Object
Frameworks, the basis of the OpenStep standard for object-oriented
computing, existing NEXTSTEP applications can be ported to the
PA-RISC workstations with no source code changes. For example,
NEXTSTEP third-party developer Athena Design ported its
sophisticated spreadsheet program, Mesa, in fewer than six hours
from the Intel to the HP PA-RISC platform with no changes in
source code, demonstrating how portable NEXTSTEP applications are
across multiple architectures.
"HP listens to its customers, and several major HP customers have
selected NEXTSTEP as their strategic solution for application
development and deployment. The HP/NeXT solution embodies
innovative technology and world-class, enterprise computing
experience," continued Roelandts.
For the server, NeXT is shipping PDOPPortable Distributed
ObjectsPfor HP-UX. PDO is the first industry product to provide a
heterogeneous client/server framework based on objects, and
extends the same seamless object model and messaging architecture
as NEXTSTEP's operating environment. 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.
NeXT is also shipping NetInfo for HP-UX servers which is
compatible with the NetInfo bundled with NEXTSTEP. Developed by
NeXT and Xedoc, the leading portable NetInfo consulting group,
NetInfo for servers is a flexible and extensible database system
for distributed system and network administration. NeXT's NetInfo
allows centralized management of NEXTSTEP-based environments.
NetInfo provides management capabilities that interoperate with HP
OpenView network and system management environment.
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.
Hewlett-Packard Company
HP is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States,
with computer-related revenue of $15.6 billion in its 1993 fiscal
year. HP has been delivering PA-RISC-based business computers
since 1986 with high reliability, data integrity, data
availability and system availability. PA-RISC is being advanced
by the Precision Risc Organization, an association of
industry-leading companies that will broaden the use of PA-RISC
technology and deliver its benefits to more customers worldwide.
Hewlett-Packard Company 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
97,000 employees and had revenue of $20.3 billion in its 1993
fiscal year.
# # # #
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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