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- Contact:
- Kindle DiGiusto
- NeXT Computer, Inc.
- 415-780-3781
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- Charlotte Penner
- Copithorne & Bellows
- 415-975-2280
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- NeXT RELEASES JAPANESE VERSIONS OF ITS OBJECT SOFTWARE
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- Reinforces NeXT's commitment to global object market
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- REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-June 26, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today
- announced that it is shipping NEXTSTEP 3.3J, NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J
- and Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J versions of their products for
- the Japanese market. The Japanese release of these products
- emphasizes NeXT's continued commitment to the global marketplace.
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- Both NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J and NEXTSTEP 3.3J provide support for
- Intel, HP PA-RISC, SUN and Motorola 68k workstations. This marks the
- first time that Japanese users can simultaneously develop and deploy
- robust object-oriented, client/server applications on Intel PCs, Sun
- and HP workstations.
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- The release of Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J is NeXT's first
- localized Enterprise Objects Framework release for the Japanese
- product. Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J extends NeXT's
- object-oriented database technology to the Japanese market by
- seamlessly integrating object-oriented applications with data from
- relational Japanese databases from Sybase, Inc. and Oracle
- Corporation.
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- "The release of these Japanese products emphasizes our commitment to
- setting the global standard in object-oriented technology," said
- Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer. "In addition, we plan
- to increase our market share leadership by leveraging our
- partnerships with Sun and Hewlett Packard in Japan, just as we are
- doing in the United States and Europe."
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- "The main advantage of NeXT's Japanese products is that you can now
- develop applications that will run on Intel, HP PA-RISC, Sun, and
- Motorola 68K platforms," said Yasuyuki Kato, Senior Research
- Engineer, Intelligent Software Research Group at NTT Access Network
- Systems Laboratories. "Because we are able to take advantage of both
- the powerful RISC architecture and NeXT's Object-oriented solution
- we are able to strategically meet our aggressive growth plan."
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- NEXTSTEP Release3.3J
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- NEXTSTEP 3.3J will support all of the features of the standard
- NEXTSTEP Release 3.3 and include additional capabilities and
- applications specific to the Japanese market. With the release of
- NEXTSTEP 3.3J provides users with greater support for large-scale
- environments typical of NeXT's corporate customers. Specifically, it
- addresses issues such as interoperability, scalability, and ease of
- use that are critical to application deployment.
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- Japanese customers will see enhancements in the operating system,
- such as Japanese MIME support in the NextMail application.
- Additional Japanese software is included, such as an Input Manager
- that allows Japanese character input , Japanese-aware UNIX commands,
- and the Gaji Manager that allows users to create personalized
- characters.
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- NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J provides stepping stone to OpenStep
- NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J is designed to aid customers who
- need to rapidly develop robust and easy-to-maintain client/server
- applications. It is also a stepping-stone for developers planning to
- deploy OpenStep on Windows NT, Windows 95, Solaris and Digital UNIX
- applications in the future.
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- The visual development tools, including NeXT's industry-acclaimed
- Interface Builder, have been improved in this release to ease
- development and promote greater object re-use. For example, new
- tools enable developers to navigate the Foundation class clusters
- more easily and developers can now build complete palettes containing
- precompiled objects for rapid re-use without writing code.
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- NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J also includes improved C++ support.
- The new C++ compiler, which supports multiple inheritance and
- templates, allows developers to create C++ objects as well as
- Objective C objects. NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3 continues to support
- Objective C++, NeXT's integrated Objective C & C++ compiler.
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- For those operating in heterogeneous computing environments,
- NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J enables customers to build
- enterprise-wide, client/server applications to run on any of four
- hardware platforms - Intel PCs, PA-RISC and SPARC workstations and
- NeXT Computers. For example, developers can create a single
- executable, install the application on a network and run the
- application on any of the four architectures.
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- NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J's extended Driver Kit provides fully
- object-oriented class libraries that allow developers to develop
- drivers for new PC technologies, including portables. It supports
- PCI, PCMCIA and Advanced Power Management. Additionally, open
- application APIs, such as IP Multicast, provide support for broadcast
- messaging and the framework for multimedia networking and live
- information feeds.
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- EOF 1.1J provides access to existing relational databases
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- The Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J is NeXT's revolutionary
- technology which enables customers to rapidly build reusable business
- and application-level objects that are independent of underlying
- databases. Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1J seamlessly
- integrates object-oriented applications with data from Japanese
- releases of leading relational databases from Oracle Corporation and
- Sybase, Inc.
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- Specifically, Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1J provides for
- high performance in three critical areas: application start-up
- time, virtual memory usage and CPU usage.
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- Enterprise Objects integrate business data with the business
- policies that make the data meaningful. For example, a customer
- credit rating (data) has little meaning separate from the policy that
- determines credit ratings. In addition, a credit rating that is
- computed according to an obsolete policy is erroneous. As a result
- of existing within the NEXTSTEP application development environment,
- Enterprise Objects can be reused in application after application.
- Therefore, as business requirements change, the policies in effect
- for a particular business object can easily be redefined and every
- application automatically incorporates the new policies.
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- The Enterprise Objects Framework Modules
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- The Enterprise Object Modeler is used by developers to build
- Enterprise Objects (NeXT's term for business objects); and create a
- mapping structure that sits between these Enterprise Objects and the
- databases used by the application. If the structure of the database
- changes, the Enterprise Object Modeler can be used to reconfigure the
- mapping structure.
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- The Framework enables Enterprise Objects to run on the NEXTSTEP
- operating system and is required for all systems on which Enterprise
- Objects Framework-built applications will be deployed. This module
- is available for NEXTSTEP today and will be available for the PDO
- platforms this summer, enabling Enterprise Objects to be deployed on
- servers running HP-UX, SUN OS, Solaris and Digital UNIX operating
- systems.
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- The adaptor layer provides database independence by enabling the
- Framework to communicate to a variety of RDBMSs, transparent to
- Enterprise Objects. Today, database adaptors for Oracle and Sybase
- are bundled with the product. Other adaptors are available from
- database vendors and third party developers.
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- Pricing and Availability
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- Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1J, NEXTSTEP 3.3J and
- NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J are all now available worldwide.
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- NeXT Computer, Inc.
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- NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most
- advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced
- which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own
- MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's UNIX and Microsoft's Windows NT and
- Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows corporate
- customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier, client-server,
- mission critical custom applications. NeXT is headquartered in
- Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London,
- Paris, Munich and Tokyo.
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- NeXT, the NeXT logo, NEXTSTEP, PDO, Portable Distributed Objects,
- the PDO logo and Enterprise Objects are trademarks or registered
- trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned
- belong to their respective owners.
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