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From: Darren_Smith@NeXT.COM (Darren Smith)
Subject: DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION CHOOSES OPENSTEP AS A PRIMARY STRATEGIC
OBJECT TECHNOLOGY
Date: 25 Jun 1994 13:49:29 -0400
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415-780-3786
or
Chuck Malkiel
Digital Equipment Corporation
508-493-4164
or
Bob Price
Digital Equipment Corporation
508-493-4297
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION CHOOSES OPENSTEP
AS A PRIMARY STRATEGIC OBJECT TECHNOLOGY
Digital to port OpenStep software to DEC OSF/1 AXP
SAN FRANCISCO-June 21, 1994-Digital Equipment Corporation and
NeXT Computer, Inc., today announced that Digital has chosen OpenStep as a
primary strategic object technology. Digital will port NeXT's OpenStep software
to its DEC OSF/1 operating system on Alpha AXP, making it a strategic
object-oriented environment for application development. OpenStep will be
integrated with Digital's ObjectBroker and distributed by Digital.
OpenStep is NeXT's proposed industry standard for an operating system
independent, object-oriented application layer which can run on a variety of
host operating systems. Applications written on top of OpenStep are portable
across all OpenStep implementations, regardless of the underlying operating
system. Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company have already committed
to products based on OpenStep.
"Digital has evaluated object-oriented technology shipping today and on the
horizon and Digital has chosen NeXT. OpenStep will play a strategic role for
Digital, allowing us to offer customers this premier technology on our high
performance Alpha AXP desktop systems," said Enrico Pesatori, vice president
and general manager for Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Business
Unit. "OpenStep on Alpha AXP is a key component to our object-oriented product
strategy and provides Digital customers with the foundation for complete
client/server software solutions based on NeXT technology, including
NEXTSTEP for Intel on the client side and Portable
Distribute Objects (PDO) and NetInfo running on our UNIX-based servers."
"With Digital, Sun and Hewlett-Packard basing products on OpenStep, it is
poised to become the industry standard for object-oriented computing," said
Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "NeXT is providing the
leading edge object-oriented technology which provides unprecedented levels of
application portability between Intel and RISC-based systems. >From the
desktop to the server, Digital's leadership in the UNIX marketplace makes them
an excellent provider of OpenStep and NEXTSTEP technology for the enterprise."
The Digital-NeXT Client/Server Solution
With the completion of porting OpenStep to DEC OSF/1, Digital will provide a
full suite of applications similar to those in NEXTSTEP 3.2, including the
Workspace Manager, NeXTmail, as well as NEXTSTEP Developer. For application
developers, this means that applications written to the OpenStep API are
source-code compatible with any version of OpenStep. OpenStep provides a
common object-oriented framework across Intel, PA-RISC, SPARC, Alpha AXP and
PowerPC-based systems, creating a large market for software developers
and minimizing platform dependencies.
Digital also plans to integrate OpenStep with ObjectBroker, its CORBA-compliant
distributed object system which is the foundation for Digital's Common Object
Model (COM) implementation. This integration will allow any object managed
by ObjectBroker to interact with objects in the NeXT environment. ObjectBroker
is shipping today on Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, DEC OSF/1, ULTRIX, SunOS,
HP-UX and AIX servers.
On the desktop, NEXTSTEP for Intel processors is currently shipping on
Digital's LPx, MTE and XL personal computers. For the server, NeXT is currently
shipping NetInfo for OSF/1, the network-based framework for administering
large networks without the overhead, delay and inconsistencies created by other
network administration tools. By the end of the year, NeXT will be shipping
PDO (Portable Distributed Objects) for Alpha AXP servers. PDO extends the same
seamless object model and messaging architecture found in the native
NEXTSTEP operating environment to standard UNIX based servers, including
Digital's UNIX.
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 Computer, Inc. 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.
# # # #
Note to Editors:
Digital, the Digital logo, Alpha AXP, DEC, DECpc, ObjectBroker, and ULTRIX are
trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.
NeXT, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, PDO and Portable Distributed Objects are
registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation.
OSF/1 is a registered trademark of the Open Software Foundation, Inc.
Windows is a trademark and Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft
Corporation.
Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
Sun Microsystems and SPARC are registered trademarks and SunOS is a trademark
of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard and HP-UX are registered trademarks Hewlett-Packard Company.
UNIX is a registered trademark licensed exclusively in the U.S. and other
countries by X/Open Company, Ltd.
Other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.