FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Nicole Overson
NeXT
Software, Inc.
415/780-3751
NeXT PUBLISHES OPENSTEP
SPECIFICATION
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - June 30, 1994 - NeXT Computer,
Inc. today announced that the preliminary version of the OpenStep specification
is now available to the public via anonymous FTP from NeXT's archive server ftp://ftp.next.com/. The on-schedule publication
of this open specification on June 30 represents a major milestone in the
OpenStep initiative, jointly announced by NeXT and SunSoft, Inc. in November of
1993, to create an open object standard based on NeXT's industry-acclaimed
NEXTSTEP object-oriented software. The final version of the OpenStep
specification will be published by September 30, 1994.
OpenStep is an
industry-endorsed specification for an operating system independent object
standard, based on NeXT's advanced object technology. Applications written on
OpenStep are portable across all OpenStep implementations, regardless of the
underlying operating system. NeXT, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard
Company and Digital Equipment Corporation will all ship OpenStep-compliant
products in 1995.
"NEXT, Sun, Hewlett-Packard and Digital are all driving
OpenStep to become the volume object standard for the industry, and publishing
an open specification is a major milestone down this path," said Steven P. Jobs,
chairman and CEO of NeXT.
"SunSoft is delighted with the progress of the
OpenStep specification and the industry support we've seen in the months since
SunSoft and NeXT announced OpenStep," said Steve MacKay, vice president of
software technology development at SunSoft. "Our customers are eager to see
first-hand the benefits of OpenStep applications combined with the power of
Solaris, and we are continuing to work with NeXT to make this a reality."
NeXT Computer, Inc.
NeXT develops and markets the
award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented software for industry-standard computer
architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly
develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is
headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America,
London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo.
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