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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NeXT Demonstrates Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) on HP 9000 Servers at UNIX EXPO Date: 21 Sep 1993 14:11:21 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 146 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27ng49$ogi@digifix.digifix.com> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Karen Logsdon NeXT Computer, Inc. 415/780-3786 or Marilyn Kilinski Ketchum Public Relations 212/536-8865 NeXT DEMONSTRATES PORTABLE DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS (PDO) ON HP 9000 SERVERS AT UNIX EXPO Customers receive greater reusability of objects in a heterogenous networked environment NEW YORK - September 21, 1993 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced it is demonstrating a beta version of Portable Distributed Objects (PDO) on Hewlett-Packard Company's HP 9000 servers at Unix Expo. With PDO, customers can take objects developed in NEXTSTEP, deploy them in a heterogenous server environment and share them throughout an enterprise-wide network. The benefit: PDO gives customers greater access to the largely untapped processing power available throughout their networks. "PDO allows us to make client-server computing easier. Customers will find they have greater reusability of code because applications share common objects throughout a heterogenous enterprise-wide network," said Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT. "PDO also makes the complexity of networks transparent to developers and end users and allows customers to deploy more sophisticated custom applications with greater flexibility, and in less time than ever before." With PDO, customers dynamically off-load compute intensive processes to the computer best suited for the task. For example, organizations can use PDO to build complex financial, customer service and network management solutions in an environment where servers provide specialized services to applications. A financial system could include a custom analytic object running on the fastest server on the network, enabling traders with NEXTSTEP client systems to improve their ability to make real-time investment decisions. With PDO, the location of the custom analytic object is independent of the application design and deployment. Object-oriented productivity for enterprise computing Since PDO extends the object-oriented programming paradigm to distributed computing, developers creating applications in this environment enjoy all of the benefits of object-oriented programming, such as fewer lines of code in development, higher reusability of software and greater maintainability and reliability of software systems. "PDO brings us the best of both worlds for servers," according to John Keazirian, executive vice president at CRT/NationsBank. "It allows us to extend the rapid development environment beyond the NEXTSTEP client and lets server machines continue to offer the high range of availability, data integrity, network management tools, process controls and security capabilities that our business requires." Developing products to meet industry standards Currently, NEXTSTEP, NeXT's object-oriented software, runs on industry-standard Intel 486- and Pentium-based PCs and delivers support for distributed, object-oriented programming across networks of NEXTSTEP-based computers. With NEXTSTEP's object technology, objects transparently send messages to other objects running within the same application. NEXTSTEP's distributed object technology allows the same transparent messaging to occur between objects resident in different applications, whether the applications are running on the same machine or across the network. This messaging allows greater reusability of objects, by providing a framework for applications to share common objects within a networked environment. PDO provides even greater reusability of software, by allowing these objects to exist in non-NEXTSTEP environments, such as an HP 9000 series 800 server running the HP-UX operating system. Today, PDO provides interoperability between NEXTSTEP clients and server environments. One of the major design goals of the PDO product is openness and adherence to existing and emerging industry computing standards, such as OMG's CORBA (Common Object Request Broker) and DCE (Distributed Computing Environment), so that interoperability between NEXTSTEP and emerging distributed computing standards will be possible. "As part of the NeXT/HP Object*Enterprise initiative to bring object-orientation to enterprise computing, we plan to work together to define a strategy for interoperability at the object level with products such as NEXTSTEP's PDO and HP's DOMF," said Jobs. "The recent announcements by HP and IBM regarding the sharing of distributed object technology is good news for NeXT because PDO will complement their efforts, providing developers interoperability with these industry offerings." The final release of PDO is expected to be available for HP servers as part of the Object*Enterprise suite of solutions in Q4 1993. Pricing to be announced at a later date. About 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. 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 94,900 employees and had a revenue of $16.4 billion in its 1992 fiscal year. # # # # NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective owners. HP-UX is based on and is compatible with USL's UNIX operating system. 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