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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM Subject: NeXT Announces Second Edition of ObjectWare Catalog Organization: Next Announcements Approved: sanguish@digifix.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Marilyn Kilinski Ketchum Public Relations 212/536-8865 NEXT ANNOUNCES SECOND EDITION OF OBJECTWARE CATALOG New catalog features greater number of objects in more categories SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 15, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. announces the second edition of ObjectWare, the industry's only catalog of reusable objects for NEXTSTEP. The ObjectWare catalog contains 1412 objects from more than 100 independent object designers. "Object-oriented technology is leading the software revolution of the '90s and NEXTSTEP developers who are using and creating objects are receiving the benefits," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Our object-oriented architecture provides an opportunity to create reusable objects that enable customers to work more efficiently and effectively. In the process, we are creating a new, sub-industry, called ObjectWare." Objects are reusable software applications that sit between traditional system software and traditional application software. They are beneficial because customers can reuse them to create custom applications two to five times faster than traditional methods. The Object Marketplace The trend toward object-oriented software is especially evident in the financial services, telecommunications and healthcare markets because customers in these markets must develop, deploy, maintain and enhance custom applications quickly and efficiently. "Object-oriented technology is rapidly changing the way systems are developed today and the only drawback to this powerful technology has been the discovery of industrially-important, reusable objects," said Frank King, president, Pencom Software. "Throughout our re-engineering projects, we have discovered objects for our clients that provided additional functionality. So we took the best work from our projects, enhanced it and created three packages for Database Kit developers," he said. Reusable software objects providing functionality, flexibility and maintainability are listed in the catalog by category and include some of the following features: - Communication Objects & Device Drivers that enable customers to send and receive information such as faxes or multimedia objects, and provide connection to devices such as scanners and printers; - Database Systems & Objects that allow users to design and create databases for custom applications, as well as implement complex reports from a database; - Development Tools & Utilities for enabling applications to be developed more quickly and easily; - Financial & Data Analysis Tools to allow for the extraction, enhancement and analysis of raw market data and provide users with an interface to digital market data services; - Graphics and 3D Objects that enable users to grab video frames and manipulate high-quality color images. - Information Display Objects that allow customers to display information such as contour plots of two-dimensional grid data; - Networking & Telecommunications for building distributed mainframe and network applications; - Sound, Music and Multimedia to add text-to-speech capabilities or traditional audio dictation and transcription functionality to applications; - User Interface Objects allow users to scroll both horizontally and vertically at the same time and implement object dragging and dropping between custom applications; Pricing and Availability The ObjectWare catalog is available now for $12.00 can be ordered by calling 1-800-TRY-NeXT. All objects listed in the catalog are available through their respective developers. NeXT Computer, Inc. NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP to develop and deploy custom client/server applications, using both custom and shrink-wrapped software. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, and with offices throughout the world, NeXT serves customers requiring enterprise-wide, object-oriented productivity environments. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners.
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