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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Subject: NeXT Announces Support For HP 9000 UNIX- and RISC-based Systems Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Melissa Calvo Hewlett-Packard Company 408/447-5456 NeXT Announces Support For HP 9000 UNIX- and RISC-based Systems NEXTSTEP on HP Workstations and Servers Targets Financial Services Industry SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 1993 -- NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced a new generation of business solutions that increase productivity for the financial services industry on Hewlett-Packard Company's UNIX-and PA-RISC-workstations and business servers. The new solution -- Object+Enterprise -- combines NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software with the HP 9000 product family, providing a client/server solution based on object-oriented technology for the financial services industry. Object+ Enterprise will enable customers to develop and deploy object-oriented applications across the enterprise, delivering state-of-the-art desktop to data center solutions. As part of the Object+Enterprise solution, NeXT will provide the following three key products: * NEXTSTEP Release 3.1, NeXT's object-oriented software, is expected to be available on HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 workstations, in mid-1994. * NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) for the HP 9000 Series 800 business servers running HP-UX is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 1993. PDO provides a basis for deploying object-oriented applications across the enterprise. * NeXT's NetInfo network management software for the Series 800 servers running HP-UX is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 1993. The Object+Enterprise also will integrate NEXTSTEP and key distributed computing standards including OMG's CORBA, OSF's DCE and DME: "HP listens to its customers, and our financial services customers want NEXTSTEP," said Willem P. Roelandts, vice president and general manager of HP's Computer Systems Organization. "Several major HP customers have selected NEXTSTEP as their strategic solution for financial service application development and deployment. The HP/NeXT solution embodies innovative technology and world-class, enterprise computing experience." "The combination of HP's advanced workstation and server products and NEXTSTEP will give our customers a truly scalable architecture," said Steven P, Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT. "Our goal is to provide a complete object-oriented foundation for client/server computing that spans the enterprise. This is an excellent alliance for NeXT, especially given HP's leadership in enterprise computing and object-oriented computing standards." "Object+Enterprise clearly addresses our need to deploy applications quickly by combining the sophisticated development power of objects with an intuitive user interface for our non technical user," said Craig Heimark managing director of Swiss Bank Corporation. "With NEXTSTEP and distributed objects running across HP's complete product family, we have a powerful, scalable, distributed computing platform that may well become our strategic architecture for the '90s." NeXT on HP NeXT's Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) for PA-RISC allows NEXTSTEP objects to be deployed on HP's Series 800 servers running HP-UX. The PDO software, which includes an Objective-C compiler and runtime environment, will allow developers to create flexible, scalable applications that take full advantage of client/server networks. NeXT's NetInfo for the Series 800 allows centralized management of NEXTSTEP-based clients and servers. NetInfo will provide management capabilities that interoperate with HP OpenView network and system management environment. HP's desktop computers provide a broad range of choices for client systems, ranging from the Vectra line of Intel-based PC products, available with NEXTSTEP today, to the PA-RISC based Series 700 workstations, available with NEXTSTEP soon. HP 9000 Workstations and Servers HP 9000 workstations and servers have consistently led the industry in performance for both technical and business-computing standard benchmarks. These high-speed systems, which are crucial in the financial services industry, are well suited for business-critical financial modeling and simulation programs, market data dissemination, decision support suites and risk management products. In addition, the object-orientation of NEXTSTEP will provide the benefits of rapid application development and deployment on the Series 700 workstations. High availability features of the Series 800 servers will provide a secure computing environment for large database operations and will serve as gateways to global multi-vendor networks. The addition of PDO will allow access to enterprise-wide applications from the desktop and faster integration of existing and future client/server applications. About HP Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Hewlett-Packard Company is the third-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer revenue in excess of $12 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. Hewlett-Packard is an international manufacturer of measurement and computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality and support. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 100 countries. HP has 93,100 employees and had a revenue of $16.4 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. About NeXT NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. NEXTSTEP is used by customers to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped productivity software. NeXT is headquartered at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, Calif., 94063. NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. PA-RISC means Precision Architecture-reduced-instruction-set computing. CORBA is the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker, which provides interoperability among different object-oriented software running on disparate operating systems. DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) and DME (Distributed Management Group) are the Open Software Foundation's emerging standards for managing distributed computing and heterogeneous networks. ####
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