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NeXT Nugget News Digest (vol. 6, issue 1, January 19, 1993)

Welcome to the Nugget News Digest: information for NeXT users
worldwide.

             ***  TABLE OF CONTENTS  ***

THREE NeXTWORLD EXPO SURVEY QUESTIONS (Please Respond Today)

NeXT ANNOUNCEMENTS (January)
 =>    1. NeXT Profitable in Q4 '92; N. American Sales Up 36%
 =>    2. Second Annual NeXTWORLD EXPO Slated for May 1993
 =>    3. Announcing the 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO
 =>    4. NeXTWORLD Expo '93 User Conference Call For Presentation
          Topics
 =>    5. CALL FOR EXHIBITORS AT 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO
 =>    6. Call for Submissions: 1993 NeXTSTEP Objectware Catalog


All previous 47 Nugget News Digest issues from 1992 are archived at
the Purdue ftp archive site: sonata.cc.purdue.edu under...

In NeXTMailbox format:
      /pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Q2_1992.tar.Z
      /pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Q3_1992.tar.Z
      /pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Sept_1992.tar.Z
      /pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Oct_1992.tar.Z
      /pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Nov_1992.tar.Z
      /pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Dec_1992.tar.Z

Or in text (ascii) format:
      /pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Nov92.txt
      /pub/next/submissions/Nugget_News_Digest_Dec92.txt


Past issues (early 1992 and 1991) also appear in
/pub/next/Newsletters/Nugget directory on Sonata.

Please feel free to archive or distribute the copies at your site.

Best wishes,
Conrad Geiger
Manager, International NeXT User Group Program
< over 420 NeXT User Groups worldwide >

P.S. To be added or deleted from this distribution, send email
to "[e-mail]."   Send your article submissions and
articles for future Nugget News Digests to "[e-mail]"




___________________________________________________________________

* THREE NeXTWORLD EXPO SURVEY QUESTIONS (Reply deadline: January 27)
* (See NeXTWORLD Expo announcement below!)
*
*     1.  Will you be ATTENDING the May 25-27, 1993 NeXTWORLD Expo
*         this year?
*     2.  What TOPICS or SESSIONS would you like to see covered at
*         this year's User, Developer and User Group conferences?
*     3.  Would you or your NeXT User Group be willing to VOLUNTEER
*         to assist during this year's NeXTWORLD Expo?
*
*  Please reply to the survey questions today!





___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

NeXT ANNOUNCEMENTS

 =>    1. NeXT Profitable in Q4 '92; N. American Sales Up 36%

News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:        Allison Thomas
                Allison Thomas Associates
                [phone]

NeXT Profitable in Q4 '92
North American Sales Up 36% in 1992

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., January 21, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today
announced its first quarterly operating profit, for the fourth
quarter of 1992, on revenues of $45 million.  NeXT also announced
worldwide revenues of $140 million for the year ended December 31,
1992, an increase of 10 percent over the prior year's $127 million.
Highlighted were North American revenues, which increased 36 percent
year to year, from $72 million to $98 million.

"NeXT had a solid 1992, with a growth rate more than double that of
the total workstation market, which grew 4.2 percent, according to
Dataquest," said Peter van Cuylenburg, NeXT's president and chief
operating officer.  "We achieved profitability in Q4 on the basis of
increased revenues, higher gross margins and reduced expenses."


Steven P. Jobs, NeXT's chairman and CEO, commented:  "We added to our
base of large customers in 1992, which now includes Chrysler
Financial, McCaw Cellular, WilTel, Bozell (BJK&E), Mount Clemens
Hospital, First National Bank of Chicago and Swiss Bank Corporation.
One of these customers is already using NeXTSTEP on more than 1,000
desktops, and several others are planning multi-thousand desktop
deployments during the next 12 to 24 months."

One of NeXT's most recent new customer wins is AIG Trading
Corporation, a currency and commodities trading company that is
designing its new trading floor completely around the object-oriented
NeXTSTEPd environment.

"Fast, reliable and cutting-edge communications and information
technology are critical to our success," said Tom Borgeson, director
of technology for AIG Trading Corporation.  "We are sold on the
object-oriented approach to developing and using software, and
NeXTSTEP is the leader in integrating that approach onto a UNIX
platform.  We're very excited about using our NeXT systems to develop
applications in-house and to integrate voice and text communications,
especially using NeXTmail."

About NeXT
NeXT Computer, Inc. designs and markets the industry-acclaimed
NeXTSTEP object-oriented system software environment.  NeXTSTEP is
used by medium and large organizations to develop and deploy
mission-critical applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped
software.  NeXT is headquartered at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood
City, Calif., 94063.


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NeXT, the NeXT logo, NeXTSTEP and NeXTmail are trademarks of NeXT
Computer, Inc.  All other trademarks mentioned belong to their
respective owners.



___________________________________________________________________

 =>    2. Second Annual NeXTWORLD EXPO Slated for May 1993

Contacts:

        Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI)
        Paul Lamoureaux, [phone]

        NeXTWORLD Magazine
        Jeannine Barnard, [phone]

        Allison Thomas Associates
        Angela Grady, [phone]


SECOND ANNUAL NeXTWORLD EXPO SLATED FOR MAY 1993
10,000 Attendees Expected at San Francisco Event


SAN FRANCISCO, January, 1993 - Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI),
NeXTWORLD Magazine and NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that
NeXTWORLD Expo '93 the second international conference devoted to
the NeXTSTEP platform will be held at the Moscone Convention Center
in San Francisco May 25 through 27, 1993.  More than 10,000 people
from commercial, government and educational organizations are
expected to attend the event, which combines a Developer's
Conference, User Conference and product showcase.

Last year's Expo drew more than 7,000 people.  Attendance at
NeXTWORLD Expo '93 promises to exceed that number, in part by
attracting PC users interested in NeXTSTEP 486, the industry's first
object-oriented system software to run on industry-standard Intel
hardware.

Jobs will kick off NeXTWORLD Expo '93 with a keynote presentation.



Event Appeals to All Members of the NeXTSTEP Community

NeXTWORLD Expo '93 combines three events into one:

 - A worldwide Developer's Conference.  The three-day
conference, sponsored by NeXT, will provide developers with
information on future object-oriented software technology and market
direction.

 - Product Showcase.  The end-user product showcase, which will last
for two-and-one-half days, will feature NeXTSTEP-related hardware and
software products from more than 100 exhibitors.

 - User Conference.  Also lasting two-and-one-half days, the User
Conference will feature a program of prominent speakers who will
cover a variety of topics, ranging from object-oriented client/server
systems to enterprise-wide deployment.

In addition, NeXT Organizations InteRnational (NOIR) is sponsoring an
international user group program on May 27 as part of NeXTWORLD Expo.
More than 200 worldwide NeXT user groups will be represented and will
participate in various user group events during the course of the
Expo.

NeXTWORLD Expo will also dedicate space to the growing number of
ObjectWared vendors developers offering this component-based
software for incorporating real-world functionality into any kind of
application.  An ObjectWare Pavilion will be situated on the
exhibition floor throughout the Expo.

ObjectWare, made possible by NeXTSTEP's object-oriented architecture,
sits between traditional system software and traditional application
software.  It consists of objects that can be bought and licensed by
developers to create custom applications much faster.  Hundreds of
developers have created commercially available or public-domain
ObjectWare objects, some of which are included in a NeXT catalog
titled NeXT ObjectWare.  These third-party ObjectWare objects, like
all the objects included in the mature library of foundation objects
provided in NeXTSTEP, are fully conformant with the Object Management
Group (OMG)'s industry-standard object model.

"ObjectWare began with NeXTSTEP, the first fully object-oriented
system software to be available in the market, and has blossomed into
a healthy sub-industry for software development," said Jobs.  "By
devoting Expo space to ObjectWare, we are both recognizing the
importance of the phenomenon and helping to foster it worldwide."


About the Expo's Sponsors

NeXTWORLD Expo '93 is being jointly sponsored by NeXT Computer, Inc.,
NeXTWORLD Magazine and Digital Consulting, Inc.

NeXT Computer, Inc., headquartered in Redwood City, Calif.,  designs
and markets the industry-acclaimed NeXTSTEP object-oriented system
software environment, and designs, manufactures and markets
UNIX-based workstations that run NeXTSTEP.  NeXTSTEP and NeXT
workstations are used by medium and large organizations to develop
and deploy mission-critical applications, using both custom and
shrink-wrapped software.

NeXTWORLD Magazine, published in San Francisco, is the comprehensive
source of news, reviews and information for users and prospective
buyers of NeXTSTEP computers.  It provides a bi-monthly magazine and
newsletter.

Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI), is America's leading computer
industry seminar, conference and exposition company.  DCI currently
sponsors more than 75 computer-related evens held throughout the
world, including CASEWORLD, DATABASE WORLD & CLIENT/SERVER WORLD,
Downsizing EXPO, MOBILE WORLD and Pen-Based EXPO & SOFTWARE WORLD.
DCI also manages user and developer conferences for Blyth Software,
Data Ease, Digital Equipment, Gupta Software, IBM, Revelation
Technologies and Sybase.

For more information on attending, speaking at or exhibiting at
NeXTWORLD Expo '93, please call 1-800-767-2336.

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NeXT, NeXTSTEP and ObjectWare are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.






____________________________________________________________________

 =>    3. Announcing the 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO

What it is....

The 2nd annual gathering of the world-wide NeXT community!
        An international Developers Conference!
                An educational Users Conference!
                        A NeXTSTEP product exposition!
                                A global User Group Meeting!

Call 1-800-767-2336 -or- from outside North America call
[phone] or fax to [phone] for registration information.

When it is...

   MAY 25-27, 1993,


Where it is...

   THE MOSCONE CENTER,
   SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA


What to do....

Pass the word.  Tell your colleagues, fellow user group members,
other computer industry user group members, fellow NeXTSTEP
developers, potential developers, and friends, to schedule this date,
and stay tuned for more information!!  Please post this message to
local and community electronic bulletin boards and feel free to
publish in your user group or company newsletters.

Please send your email address to

        [e-mail]

if you wish to be included on future announcements.


Once again, call to get on the postal mailing list for advanced
registration and more information about the 1993 NeXTWORLD Expo....

1-800-767-2336 -or- from outside North America call 508-470-3880 -or-
fax [phone].

_____________________________________________________________________

 =>    4. NeXTWORLD Expo '93 User Conference Call For Presentation
          Topics

Below is a Presentation Proposal Form to be completed by anyone
interested in becoming a speaker at this years NeXTWORLD Expo
Conference program.  Mail the form today!

Presentation Proposal Form (Submission deadline: January 27, 1993)

Participant Information

Name:

Title:

Organization:

Address:

City:            State:             Zip:

Phone Number:

Topic Information

Title:

Category (Please indicate the most appropriate area to which your presentation
 topic relates):

[] Client/Server Computing Issues   [] Enterprise-Wide Deployment
[] Application Development Issues   [] Building Database Applications
[] Interoperability & Networking    [] Object-Oriented Technology

Abstract (Please prepare a 100-word summary of your topic covering
its goals, key points, issues, and experiences, etc.)


_____________________________________________________________________


 =>    5. CALL FOR EXHIBITORS AT 1993 NeXTWORLD EXPO

Join us from May 25-27 at Moscone Center in San Francisco for the
second annual gathering of the worldwide NeXT community, and
International Developers conference, an educational Users conference,
a NeXTSTEP product exposition, and a global NeXT User Group meeting!

NeXTWORLD Expo is being co-sponsored by NeXTWORLD Magazine and
Digital Consulting, Inc. (DCI).  DCI is handling all show management
and logistics for this year's Expo.

Exhibitors please contact Matthew Schmuck or Charlie Hurth at DCI
West--
        408 280 6778 voice
        408 280 6779 fax

Exhibitor kits will be available December 28.  Space will be assigned
on a first-come, first-serve basis. (Past NeXTWORLD Expo exhibitors
will be given priority consideration for space selection through
January 10).

Calls are pouring in, and choice space is moving quickly, so don't
delay!

Expo and Conference Attendees:

To participate in the User Conference, Developer Conference, or to
attend the Expo, call 1-800-767-2336.  International callers can fax
inquiries to DCI at 508-470-0526. Please label all correspondence:

        Attention: NeXTWORLD Expo

and include your name, address, business name, FAX and phone numbers.



Conrad Geiger
Manager, International NeXT User Groups


____________________________________________________________________

 =>    6. Call for Submissions: 1993 NeXTSTEP Objectware Catalog

Announcing 1993 NeXTSTEP OBJECTWARE CATALOG - Call for Submissions
(Submission deadline is FEBRUARY 8)

NeXT Computer is producing a completely new version of the ObjectWare
Catalog. The Catalog will be distributed throughout the year to NeXT
customers worldwide, and NeXT would like to have all current NeXTSTEP
objects (commercial, shareware and public domain) included in the
Catalog.  The unveiling of the new catalog will be at NeXTWORLD Expo
'93 in May.

Although this does not allow you as much time to prepare your
submissions as you might have liked, NeXT is certain that the
catalog is a real opportunity to show the Object and NeXT world what
you have produced, and we urge you to participate. Enclosed below is
an entry submission form for the ObjectWare catalog.

Please note the submission deadline is FEBRUARY 8.

NeXTWORLD Expo '93 is scheduled for May 25-27, in San Francisco,
California. More than 10,000 people are expected to attend the Expo,
from commercial, government, and educational organizations worldwide.
As NeXTSTEP is the premier platform for delivering the benefits of
object-oriented technology, the exhibition floor will have a special
section devoted entirely to objects. Floorspace, including the
"ObjectWare Pavilion," which runs throughout the show floor, is
still available. If you are interested in exhibiting, contact Matthew
Schmuck or Charlie Hurth at Digital Consulting, Inc.  They may be
reached at:

        [phone] voice
        [phone] fax



Objectware Catalog Submission Form
(Deadline for submitting entries is February 8)

Please follow these instructions carefully.

- Each product must have its own separate and complete submission
   (i.e., don't include multiple products in the same submission).

- Submissions must be in electronic form (i.e., on floppies, ODs, or
  you may send them by electronic mail).

- Type everything exactly as you would like it to appear in the
  catalog.

- Use Edit as your word processor.

- Don't use bold or italic typeface.

- Don't format your text with multiple columns.


Each submission must include the following:

1. Company, institution name

2. Company, institution phone number(s)
   - You must include a non-800 number (for international callers).

3. Company, institution fax number(s)
   - Add "fax" after the number.  For example: [phone] fax.
   - You must include a non-800 number (for international callers).

4. E-mail address for product information (optional)

5. Product name

6. List price

7. Product availability
   - Type "Shipping now" or appropriate quarter.

8. Product description in 100-150 words
   - Include a general summary of the methods implemented by the
     class.
   - Insert a blank line between paragraphs.
   - Include trademark symbols when you mention trademarked products
     or companies.


9. Trademark information
   - NeXT publishes trademark information for all products mentioned
     in the catalog.  Therefore, you must include appropriate
     trademark symbols for your products as well as for ancillary
     products mentioned in your product description.  Trademark
     symbols will appear as part of your product description; other
     trademark information will appear where appropriate.
   - You do not need to provide trademark symbols for NeXT products.

10. Is support available?

11. Is documentation available?

12. Is source code available?

13. Is the object on a palette?

14. Product icon (optional)

15. Graphic that will give the user a sense of where the product fits
    in the class hierarchy (optional)

16. Name of person preparing this catalog submission
   - This will not appear in the catalog.

17. Phone number, fax number, and e-mail address for person preparing
    this catalog submission if different from questions 2-4 (above)
   - This will not appear in the catalog.

Send your submissions to:

                Developer Programs
                Attn:  ObjectWare Catalog
                NeXT Computer, Inc
                900 Chesapeake Drive
                Redwood City, CA  94063

                E-mail:  [e-mail]
                Entitle your e-mail "ObjectWare Catalog Submission"

NeXT will confirm receipt of your materials.  If you have not heard
from NeXT within 14 days after you mailed your materials, call
[phone].

All submissions become property of NeXT Computer, Inc.  NeXT reserves
the right to edit all submissions.




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end of Nugget News Digest - vol. 6, issue 1, January 15, 1993

International NeXT User Groups
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