Here it is...
Gerben Wierda
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415-780-3786
or
Lisa Hahn
Copithorne & Bellows
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NeXT ANNOUNCES FY 1994 RESULTS:
$50 MILLION REVENUES; $1 MILLION PROFIT
NeXT Also Announces OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - February 21, 1995 - NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced
fiscal year 1994 revenues reached $49.6 million and its net income (profit) was
$1.0 million. Revenues grew 247% over the prior year. The company also
announced that it is developing OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95.
OpenStep for Windows is a full implementation of NeXT's industry-standard open
object layer which allows customers to rapidly develop distributed three-tier,
client/server enterprise solutions.
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the market for
object-oriented tools continues to grow at approximately 50% per year. IDC
estimates this market, which includes stand-alone C++ compilers, was $450
million in 1994. Based on NeXT's 1994 revenues, NeXT captured a 10% market
share in 1994, up from a 3.5% market share one year ago. In addition, these
statistics highlight NeXT as the third largest supplier of object development
tools, following Microsoft and Borland, and the only company of the three
focused exclusively on object technology.
"I am pleased to announce record growth and profitability for NeXT," said
Steven P. Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "Our leadership in
objects is demonstrated by our strong financial performance, our growing
customer base in the Fortune 500 market and our decision to take NeXT's
industry-endorsed technology to mainstream desktop platforms."
OpenStep for Windows Brings OpenStep to the Mainstream
During 1994, NeXT gained support for OpenStep from industry partnerships with
Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard Company and Digital Equipment Corporation,
who adopted OpenStep as a primary object-oriented offering. NeXT is now
expanding the OpenStep platform offerings to include Windows NT and Windows 95.
OpenStep for Windows will be in beta testing during the second half of 1995,
and is expected to ship in early 1996. Pricing will be determined at that time.
"We are pleased to be partnering with NeXT to integrate its proven object
technology into our powerful Solaris software environment," said Scott McNealy,
chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We applaud NeXT's efforts to bring
OpenStep to the mainstream and encourage other partners to join the OpenStep
initiative."
OpenStep for Windows will allow corporate customers to develop object-oriented,
three-tier client server applications in a fraction of the time currently
possible with available Windows development tools, and deploy these
applications on Intel-based PCs running OpenStep for Windows NT or Windows 95.
All applications developed in OpenStep are portable across all OpenStep
implementations, including those announced from Sun, Hewlett Packard, Digital
and NeXT.
OpenStep for Windows applications will seamlessly communicate with objects
running on servers from Sun, Hewlett Packard and Digital, allowing customers to
build truly distributed, scalable applications using Windows NT and Windows 95.
OpenStep for Windows applications will also automatically communicate with OLE
objects and services, enabling OpenStep applications to interoperate with
native Windows applications such as Excel and Word.
"We're pleased that NeXT is supporting OLE, Windows NT and Win95," said Roger
Heinen, senior vice president of Microsoft Corporation's Developer Division.
"We think having a variety of development tools is good for our customers and
NeXT's customers will now have access to hundreds of shipping OLE products as
part of their development strategies."
OpenStep for Windows Technology Demonstrated
As part of the OpenStep for Windows announcement, NeXT today demonstrated two
components of OpenStep technology that have already been ported to Windows -
NeXT's PDO dynamic distributed object model and Display PostScript running
under the Windows windowing system.
PDO allows NEXTSTEP objects to run on Windows and to seamlessly communicate
over a network with PDO objects running on other operating systems, including
HP's HP-UX, Sun's Solaris and Sun OS, Digital's Unix and NeXT's MachOS. In
addition, NeXT demonstrated transparent interoperability between PDO and
Microsoft's OLE/COM object model, such that PDO and OLE/COM objects can
communicate with each other without any additional programming. This
communication is possible because PDO automatically translates each object's
interface into the other's native format, allowing OLE objects to appear as PDO
objects, and PDO objects to appear as OLE objects. The integration of the PDO
and OLE/COM object models will allow customers to develop applications in PDO
which take full advantage of all available OLE services, including those in the
Microsoft Office applications.
Display PostScript running under the Windows windowing system demonstrates the
ability to display OpenStep applications inside Windows windows, alongside
native Windows applications. This seamless window system integration is a key
milestone in porting OpenStep to Windows and demonstrates that OpenStep for
Windows will be a good Windows "citizen."
New Customers Deploy Object Technology Into The Enterprise
NeXT's success in 1994 was based on the expansion of its product family into
application server and database computing, as well as relationships with Sun,
HP and Digital. Most importantly, however, was the expansion of NeXT's customer
base which can be attributed to strengthened direct sales in vertical markets
that are most rapidly adopting object technology - communications, financial
services and government. MCI, for example, selected NEXTSTEP for the
development and delivery of custom applications for its New Friends & Family
program and the U.S. Postal Service Consumer Affairs Division selected NEXTSTEP
for its new Customer Care system.
NeXT Computer, Inc.
NEXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most advanced
object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced which will run on
several operating systems, including NeXT's own MachOS, Sun's Solaris,
Digital's OSF/1 and Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 95. OpenStep's
object-oriented technology allows corporate customers to rapidly create and
deploy three-tier, client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is
headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America,
London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo.
# # # #
NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or registered
trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to
their respective owners.
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Copyright 1994 NeXT Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.
*NeXT*, the NeXT logo, *NeXTanswers* and NEXTSTEP are the trademarks of NeXT
Computer, Inc.
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ger...@rna.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Gerben Wierda
> NeXT Also Announces OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95
Win95? How are they going to do that? Isn't there supposed to be some sort of
OS-indpendent kit in OpenStep with threads and so on? Isn't Win95 not just
ordinary DOS-based (even if the DOS is hidden inside some WinBoot program)?
Talk about difficult technology.
Mont Egan Rothstein
Darcy BROCKBANK <sam...@marge.cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
><ger...@rna.nl> writes:
>
>>Gerben Wierda writes
>>>NeXT Also Announces OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95
>
>>Win95? How are they going to do that? Isn't there supposed to be some sort of
>(but may be wrong) that Win95 does have threads, and the 16 bit code is
>only invoked for DOS apps.
>
>You boot into Win95, and can run an entire session without seeing DOS.
>For the absolutely need-to-be-compatible DOS stuff, you can boot right
>into a DOS-mode thingy.
>
>I think. But, anyway, most of the work is done for either Win95 or NT,
>when you're building for one (cleanly) as the APIs are mostly in a
>subset/superset relationship.
>
>- darcy
>
>--
>For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er
>so vile, this day shall gentle his condition. Gentlemen in England now abed
>shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods
>cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Actually if you boot Win 9X andonly run "32 bit" apps you still are
running old 16 bit DOS code. "Unauthorized Windows 95" exposes all
the lies that MS has told about Win 9X, especially that it ALWAYS uses
DOS 16 bit code.
I just assume that neXT has some great programmers who will hack there
way around there problems.
-Mont
Dover Pacific Computing Inc.
Disclaimer: I don't own the above mentioned book, I don't use windows
(anymore), and I hope not to use it again until I'm compiling an
OPENSTEP app under it :)
Dan Scott
> NeXT Also Announces OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95
So does this mean that In order to run an OpenStep program under Windows
95 or Windows NT that one would need to have a User version of OpenStep?
And does it mean that it will be possible to simultaneously run Windows
95/NT and OpenStep applications, switching back and forth transparently
between them?
And that OpenStep applications will retain their current `look and feel'
under Windows 95/NT?
This is what the announcement sounds like to me, but I am not very good at
interpreting this sort of thing...
If this is the correct interpretation then I am *very* pleased to see this
announcement---even if the price is going up greatly!
Darcy BROCKBANK
>Gerben Wierda writes
>>NeXT Also Announces OpenStep for Windows NT and Windows 95
>Win95? How are they going to do that? Isn't there supposed to be some sort of
Steven M. Boker
>Dan Scott writes
>[snip]
>>Windows 95/NT
>[snip]
>
>Try this: WinDOS-NT5 (pronounce it). Saves typing. ;-)
>
Friend of mine calls it Windows 2095.
Steve
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Ricardo Parada
>
> Actually if you boot Win 9X andonly run "32 bit" apps you still are
> running old 16 bit DOS code. "Unauthorized Windows 95" exposes all
> the lies that MS has told about Win 9X, especially that it ALWAYS uses
> DOS 16 bit code.
>
I thought all the INT 21 code that handles file system services had been
replaced with 32-bit code so that even if a 16-bit mode app calls INT 21
then it does it in protected mode. Of course, don't know that for sure.
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Michael Pizolato
[snip]
>Windows 95/NT
[snip]
Try this: WinDOS-NT5 (pronounce it). Saves typing. ;-)
Michael
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Mont Egan Rothstein
Ricardo Parada <ric...@Pencom.COM> wrote:
>Mont Egan Rothstein writes
>>
>> Actually if you boot Win 9X andonly run "32 bit" apps you still are
>> running old 16 bit DOS code. "Unauthorized Windows 95" exposes all
>> the lies that MS has told about Win 9X, especially that it ALWAYS uses
>> DOS 16 bit code.
>>
>
>I thought all the INT 21 code that handles file system services had been
>replaced with 32-bit code so that even if a 16-bit mode app calls INT 21
>then it does it in protected mode. Of course, don't know that for sure.
>
The file system stuff my very well have all the 16 bit code
removed (I didn't read the book, only fliped through it), but
there is definately 16 bit code that you will run no matter
what you do under Win 95.