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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM Subject: Announcing the 1993 NEXTSTEP Best of Breed Award Nominees Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dan Ruby NeXTWORLD Magazine 415/978-3191 NeXTWORLD MAGAZINE ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR 1993 NEXTSTEP BEST OF BREED AWARDS Stiff Competition Shows Vitality of NEXTSTEP Environment San Francisco, May 12, 1993 - NeXTWORLD Magazine today announced the finalists for the 1993 Best of Breed Awards, which honor outstanding accomplishments in NEXTSTEP product development. Three products were nominated in each of 14 categories. The winners will be announced at NeXTWORLD's Best of Breed Award ceremony on Monday, May 24, and at a special conference session at NeXTWORLD EXPO, held here May 25-27. "In many categories, the judges had a difficult time narrowing the field to just three contenders," said Daniel Ruby, editor in chief of NeXTWORLD Magazine. "This reflects the wealth of outstanding products available to NEXTSTEP users, and demonstrates the vitality of NEXTSTEP as a market for third-party products." The nominees are: Document Creation category: Pages, Pages Software PasteUp, RightBrain Software WordPerfect for NEXTSTEP, WordPerfect Corporation Business Graphics category: Concurrence, Lighthouse Design Create, Stone Design Diagram! 2, Lighthouse Design Financial Modeling category: Mesa, Athena Design Questor, Xanthus International Solution, Appsoft Graphic Arts category: 1VISION, tms GmbH Image, Appsoft Virtuoso, Altsys Corporation ObjectWare category: 3270Palette, Conextions BarCodeKit, Hot Technologies OT Palettes, Objective Technologies Utilities category: Engage! Desktop, Millennium Software Labs MetroTools, Metrosoft SafetyNet, Systemix Software Information Management category: Mathematica, Wolfram Research NoteBook, Millennium Software Labs Pencil Me In, Sarrus Software Peripherals category: Goldleaf Imagesetter/eXTRASET, Goldleaf Systems Scan-X Color/PowerScan, HSD Microcomputer US Talus T-1 Film Recorder/ImageMate, Talus Corporation Database Management category: Complete Access, Ocean Software DataPhile, Stone Design Parabase, Parabase Software Corporation Content and Information category: Birds of Europe, Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification Sex, Lies, and CD-ROM, Bay Area NeXT Group The Electronic AppWrapper, Paget Press Communications and Emulation category: co-Xist, Pencom Software NXFax, Black and White Software SoftPC, Insignia Solutions Emerging Markets category: Screen Machine, d'ART Computersysteme GmbH TaskMaster, Lighthouse Design VirtSpace, Pinnacle Research 3-D and CAD category: Frontface, nPoint solidThinking, Gestel Italia ZZVolume, Ares Development and Authoring Tools category: Callisto, Imagine Multimedia CraftMan, Xanthus International GNU C Compiler, Free Software Foundation In addition to the product-category winners, special awards will be presented for exemplary service to the NeXT community, most innovative NEXTSTEP application, and out-standing use of NEXTSTEP at a customer site. Nominations will not be announced in these categories. All NEXTSTEP products that were in wide-release beta testing by April 24 with announced plans for an Intel 80486 version were eligible for consideration. The judging panel consists of 12 NeXTWORLD editors and contributing product reviewers. NeXTWORLD, a publication of the International Data Group, the world leader in information services on information technology, is based in San Francisco, where it publishes a monthly magazine and newspaper for users of NEXTSTEP computers. -30-
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