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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Appoints Distributor for the Middle East Date: 31 Aug 1993 01:33:11 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 83 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <25unqn$ffk@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Selim Edde The Open Solutions Inc. 514/849-7364 NeXT Appoints Distributor for the Middle East REDWOOD CITY, CA.- August 31, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. announced today its move into the Middle Eastern market by appointing The Open Solutions Corporation (TOPS) as NeXT strategic partner and Value Added Distributor, for the Middle East and North Africa region. NeXT develops and markets the industry acclaimed NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry standard computer architectures. NEXTSTEP is used by medium and large organizations to develop and deploy client/server applications, using both custom and shrink wrapped productivity software. "TOPS_ mandate is to establish proper distribution channels for NEXTSTEP and its associated derivative products and services throughout the Middle East and North Africa", declared Bernhard Woebker, vice president at NeXT. TOPS, based in Montreal, Canada, is an international solutions provider in the Information Technology field. The company has extensive expertise in selling and building distribution channels for North American products in the Middle East, as well as a thorough knowledge of the region's specific requirements. TOPS is a leading expert in Arabization technology. "Our intent is to develop the Middle Eastern market for this innovative product, NEXTSTEP, by appointing committed and effective VARs who will target specific end-user markets", said Waleed Ghafari, TOP_s President. Object-oriented productivity for the enterprise NEXTSTEP Release 3.1 for Intel processors is NeXT's object-oriented software that runs on industry-standard Intel 486- and Pentium-based PCs. NEXTSTEP Developer provides visual application construction tools and reusable application objects for the development of NEXTSTEP applications. NEXTSTEP has received customer and industry accolades for dramatically speeding the development of custom applications. "With its advanced object-oriented capabilities, NEXTSTEP will have a definite impact on the development of mission critical applications in the major market sectors of the Middle East, mainly oil and petrochemical, banking and financial services, health care and education," said Selim Edde of TOPS. "NEXTSTEP which enables users to store and retrieve voice annotations and images from standard servers, running databases such as ORACLE, SYBASE or INFORMIX will optimize the client-server model that many corporations in the Middle East are trying to implement. Finally, enterprises will be able to effectively manage their existing resources and increase their productivity significantly." About NeXT 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, 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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