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- From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (International NeXT User Groups)
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- Subject: Data General, NeXT Announce Relationship
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 18:30:43 GMT
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- News
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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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- Contacts: Allison Thomas Stephanie Bigusiak
- Allison Thomas Associates Data General
- (818) 981-1520 (508) 898-4293
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- Data General, NeXT Announce Relationship
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- WESTBORO, Mass., August 4, 1992 - Data General Corporation and NeXT
- Computer, Inc. today announced a relationship in which Data General
- will resell NeXT workstations with AViiON servers. In addition, the
- two companies will cooperate in the further development of advanced
- client/server solutions.
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- "Our AViiON servers combined with NeXT's revolutionary
- object-oriented workstations will offer the best client/server
- solution in the industry," said Ronald L. Skates, president and CEO
- of Data General. "As our customers move their strategic business
- applications to client/server systems, they can use AViiON servers to
- guarantee availability and security of their data and NeXT
- workstations to access this data effectively."
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- "We think this collaboration will open up new markets to NeXT and
- expand our overall distribution capability," said Steven P. Jobs,
- chairman and CEO of NeXT. "This is especially important as corporate
- America re-engineers its business processes to achieve greater
- productivity."
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- Client/Server Solutions for Mission-Critical Applications
- Using NeXT workstations and AViiON servers, companies can provide
- their users with database-driven custom applications. Data General's
- AViiON servers support the industry's leading relational databases,
- including Oracle, Sybase, Ingres and Informix. These
- high-availability servers, in combination with disk arrays, offer
- data security and back-up products that preserve the integrity of
- customers' data, even in the event of equipment or power failures.
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- NeXT's workstations run NeXTSTEP, the industry-acclaimed
- object-oriented environment that enables corporate customers to
- create and deploy their mission-critical custom applications five to
- 10 times faster than ever before. In addition, NeXT's new Database
- Kit of objects allows even faster creation of client/server
- applications that rely on intensive database usage on the server, and
- provides a single, consistent interface to SQL databases from
- multiple vendors.
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- As part of its complete client/server solution, Data General will
- also port NeXT's NetInfo to its AViiON servers by the end of 1992.
- NeXT recently began licensing the source code for NetInfo, its
- network administration software. NetInfo lets system administrators
- manage users, machines, file systems and other network resources on
- UNIX networks, and can be ported to any UNIX-based computer. Based
- on a distributed, extensible database, NetInfo gives system
- administrators a much more flexible and manageable access control
- scheme than with other UNIX network administration tools. NetInfo
- ported to AViiON will provide top-quality support of heterogeneous
- NeXTSTEP/AViiON environments by AViiON servers.
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- About NeXT Computer
- NeXT Computer, Inc. designs and markets the industry-acclaimed
- NeXTSTEP object-oriented 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. NeXT is headquartered
- at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, California, 94063.
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- About Data General Corporation
- Data General is a leading manufacturer of computer systems for
- business, industry, government, and education. The company reported
- revenues of $1.23 billion and net income of $85.6 million for fiscal
- year 1991.
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- AViiON is a registered trademark of Data General Corporation. NeXT,
- the NeXT logo and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
- UNIX is a registered trademark of Unix Systems Laboratory. All
- other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
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