NeXT Brings Powerful Objects to Windows Users

Ports Product Suite, Enables distributed client/server development

OBJECT WORLD, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- August 14, 1995 --NeXT Computer,
Inc. today unveiled its entire suite of object-oriented software for
Microsoft Windows, bringing faster application development and increased
performance to the Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95 platforms.

NeXT previewed and demonstrated the following three products running on the
Microsoft Windows platform.

OpenStep for Windows is NeXT's application development environment that
uniquely combines the OpenStep dynamic object model with a proven and
powerful suite of tools. OpenStep for Windows allows customers to rapidly
build and deploy scalable enterprise-wide mission-critical applications.

Distributed OLE for Windows (D'OLE), allows developers to use popular tools
such as Microsoft's Visual Basic and Powersoft's PowerBuilder to build and
deploy true cross-platform three-tier client/server applications.

Enterprise Objects Framework for Windows, NeXT's database framework, brings
the power of object-oriented programming to database application
development by facilitating the integration of object-oriented
applications with persistent data stored in relational databases.

"While popular Windows tools and the OLE object model can partially satisfy
departmental needs," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT
Computer, "access to the power of NeXT's object software should now prove
an irresistible option to the thousands of Windows developers who need to
deploy true, enterprise-wide, distributed applications."

"The products being announced by NeXT will allow us to continue to develop
large-scale, mission-critical applications that really, really work, and
integrate those with great off-the-shelf apps built for the Windows
environment," said Ingvar Petursson, vice president and CIO of McCaw
Cellular.  "We will no longer have to support two different environments:
one for the front-line worker, and one for the knowledge worker. NeXT has
been the best development environment for years -- now it will fit on the
most ubiquitous desktop environment in the business."

OpenStep for Windows

Using NeXT's proven object technology, OpenStep for Windows allows
developers to adapt to the changing and growing needs of the enterprise by
creating and deploying flexible and highly scalable three-tier
client/server applications under Windows 95 and Windows NT. OpenStep's
object framework brings a dynamic and distributed object architecture to
Windows. Integration with Windows 95 and Windows NT is seamless and
transparent to the end user -- OpenStep applications running under Windows
will look and feel like any Win32 application.

Because OpenStep applications are portable across all implementations,
current NEXTSTEP customers can build applications today that can be
deployed on OpenStep for Windows in the future. For the same reason,
OpenStep applications can be deployed across any OpenStep platform.

OpenStep for Windows delivers NeXT's award-winning technology to Microsoft
Windows 95 and Windows NT. Using NeXT's development environment, Windows
developers can now rapidly build and deploy highly scalable applications
that can be distributed to a network of clients and powerful servers. This
allows organizations to build mission critical applications that can be
easily modified to adapt quickly to changing business rules, while working
in the native Windows environment.

Distributed OLE for Windows

Distributed OLE for Windows (D'OLE) extends NeXT's industry standard object
model to the Windows environment allowing customers to use their existing
Windows development tools to design and deploy three-tier client/server
applications.

To provide a high degree of integration with Windows, NeXT has augmented
its Universal Object Request Broker (ORB) to allow Distributed OLE for
Windows to support Microsoft's OLE object model, providing developers with
seamless communication between PDO and OLE objects. Using standard tools
such as Microsoft's Visual Basic, Visual C++, or Powersoft's PowerBuilder,
programmers can develop Windows applications which message OpenStep
objects that reside on servers running Digital UNIX, SunOS, Solaris,
HP-UX, or Windows NT through the standard OLE Automation protocol.  With
Distributed OLE for Windows, developers can transparently build
distributed OLE applications. Developers can easily create an application
that messages remote OLE objects across a network with any Windows
development tool that supports OLE Automation. Distributed OLE for Windows
uniquely allows application developers to develop scalable, distributed
applications using popular Windows development tools.

Enterprise Objects Framework for Windows

The Enterprise Objects Framework builds on NeXT's leadership in
object-oriented software development by dramatically reducing the costs of
building and maintaining database applications. The Enterprise Objects
Framework brings the power of object-oriented programming to database
application development, enabling Windows and OpenStep developers to
create reusable objects that couple business logic with business
information.

Using the Enterprise Objects Framework and Distributed OLE for Windows,
organizations can develop a three-tier client/server architecture that
exploits a network of clients, database servers, and compute servers.
Distributed OLE for Windows allows business objects developed with the
Enterprise Objects Framework to be distributed anywhere on the network,
including across the Internet.

Product Availability

OpenStep for Windows Release 4.0 will support Windows 95 and Windows NT,
and is scheduled to ship in mid 1996.

Distributed OLE for Windows Release 1.0 will support Microsoft Windows NT
Version 3.5 or greater, and is scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter of
this year. A follow-up release will add support for Windows 95.

Enterprise Objects Framework for Windows Release 1.1 will ship concurrent
with Distributed OLE for Windows.

NeXT Computer, Inc.

NeXT develops and markets OpenStep and WebObjects for building mission
critical object-oriented custom applications for deployment across popular
operating systems and the World Wide Web. OpenStep is the first volume
object standard for developing and deploying cross-platform three-tier
client/server applications. And WebObjects is NeXT's revolutionary
database independent development environment for quickly building
interactive Web-based applications.  NeXT is headquartered in Redwood
City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris, Munich,
and Tokyo.

For more information please visit NeXT's web site at http://www.next.com.
 
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