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Item 2195552 94/12/07 10:03
From: DENISE_SCHNEIDER@NEXT.COM@INTERNET#
Subject: NeXT SHIPS RELEASE 3.3 FOR INTEL ~ ANNOUNCES BETA FOR NEXTSTEP
DEVELOPER 3.3
Cc: next-announce@digifix.com
To order your NEXTSTEP USER 3.3 Upgrade, please call NeXT Telesales
at 1-800-848-NeXT.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415/780-3786
or
Charlotte Penner
Copithorne & Bellows
415-975-2225
NeXT SHIPS RELEASE 3.3 FOR INTEL AND
ANNOUNCES BETA FOR NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER 3.3
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-December 7, 1994-NeXT Computer, Inc. today
announced that it is now shipping a new version of its
object-oriented operating system, NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 for Intel and
Motorola processors. The company also announced that it is in beta
with NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3.
"The NEXTSTEP products that we are shipping today are a result of
customer feedback and our goal in 1995 is to continue to offer
NEXTSTEP/OpenStep customers even greater development and deployment
choices to solve their toughest business problems," said Steven P.
Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "As a result, NEXTSTEP
Release 3.3 for PA-RISC and SPARC processors will be available in
mid-1995."
NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 for Intel and Motorola Processors Ships
NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 is based on feedback from NeXT's customers and
includes enhancements to address critical deployment issues for
enterprise-wide client/server applications. The new release includes
enhancements in the areas of interoperability, scalability and ease
of use.
Specifically, NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 offers more support for
Intel-based PCs, eases system administration efforts, improves large
network scalability, provides enhanced mail features, and through
SoftPC, supports enhanced-mode MS-DOS & Windows applications.
"NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 combines the robustness of mainframe operating
systems with the flexibility of PCs, making it the best environment
for enterprise-wide deployment of object-oriented custom applications
which are typical of NeXT's corporate customers," said Eric Chu,
product marketing manager at NeXT Computer, Inc.
NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 Offers New and Enhanced Features
Keeping pace with new PC technologies, NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 includes
additional support for new standards such as PCI and ISA Plug & Play.
Release 3.3 also includes support for PCMCIA, Advanced Power
Management and 8-bit color. With the appropriate drivers, these
features provide the foundation to support popular portable
computers. Release 3.3 comes bundled with more than 50 device
drivers to support a wide variety of peripherals. These new features
simplify the task of hardware configurations and enable NEXTSTEP to
run on a larger variety of Intel-based desktop and portable systems.
To ease the task of system administration, the installation of
NEXTSTEP in large sites has been improved. With new capabilities such
as network install and network bulk upgrade, system administrators
can now install NEXTSTEP through a network server without requiring a
CD-ROM drive. Templates can also be configured so that all systems
built from the server inherit the same configurations.
NeXTmail has been significantly improved in Release 3.3 to give users
greater flexibility in how electronic mail is accessed, managed and
stored. New MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) support
enables NEXTSTEP users to send and receive multimedia messages with
users of other popular e-mail applications through the same intuitive
NeXTmail interface.
NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 also includes an updated version of SoftPC.
SoftPC 4.0 for the NEXTSTEP/Intel operating system from Insignia
Solutions, Inc. will support popular enhanced-mode Windows
applications, including Aldus PageMaker 5.0 and WordPerfect for
Windows 6.0. SoftPC is available through Insignia Solutions and is
bundled as a 30-day trial with NEXTSTEP 3.3. It is priced at $249
with upgrades for $69.
NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 Enters Beta
NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3, now in beta, is optimized to enable
developers to build enterprise-wide, client/server production
applications for Intel, Motorola, PA-RISC and SPARC architectures.
The product also includes a new Foundation Kit and increased C++
support.
Specifically, NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 simplifies application
development by allowing developers to create multi-architecture
executables which run on all four architectures supported by NeXT.
For example, the compiler allows developers to create executables for
Intel, Motorola, Sparc and PA-RISC processors from any of these
machines. The result: applications can be installed on a network,
yet run on any of the four architectures.
NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 also includes a C++ compiler which
allows developers to create C++ objects, as well as Objective C
objects. The improved compiler enhances C++ support and includes
multiple inheritance and templates. NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3 continues
to also support Objective C++, NeXT's integrated Objective C & C++
compiler.
As part of NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3, NeXT will include it's Foundation
Kit which provides significant leverage to developers by greatly
simplifying the task of programming basic functions. Foundation
provides the building blocks upon which OpenStep and NeXT's
Enterprise Objects Framework is built. Foundation provides unicode
capable string objects, collection objects such as arrays and
dictionaries, notification and archiving objects as well as objects
for interacting with the file system and other OS features such as
threads and processes. Additionally, Foundation provides a powerful
object allocation strategy which simplifies many APIs. This
allocation strategy is used throughout OpenStep and Enterprise Object
Framework.
Pricing and availability
NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 for Intel and Motorola processors is available
now for $799 with upgrades priced at $199. NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 for
PA-RISC and SPARC processors will be available in mid-1995 for the
same price. NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3 for Intel, Motorola,
PA-RISC and SPARC will be available in mid-1995. Pricing will be
announced at that time.
NeXT's Distributed Client/Server Environment
NeXT is the first company to provide a completely integrated
object-oriented enterprise-wide client/server computing environment
to Fortune 1000 and government organizations. With NEXTSTEP
Developer, Enterprise Objects Framework, Portable Distributed Objects
and NEXTSTEP/OpenStep, customers use proven and tightly-integrated
technology to develop, integrate databases, distribute and deploy
custom applications throughout a heterogeneous computing 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.
# # # #
NeXT, the NeXT logo and OpenStep, NEXTSTEP are trademarks or
registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks
mentioned belong to their respective owners.
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