NeXT RELEASES JAPANESE VERSIONS OF ITS OBJECT SOFTWARE

Reinforces NeXT's commitment to global object market

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-June 26, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced that
it is shipping NEXTSTEP 3.3J, NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J and Enterprise
Objects Framework 1.1J versions of their products for the Japanese market.
The Japanese release of these products emphasizes NeXT's continued
commitment to the global marketplace.

Both NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J and NEXTSTEP 3.3J provide support for Intel,
HP PA-RISC, SUN and Motorola 68k workstations. This marks the first time
that Japanese users can simultaneously develop and deploy robust
object-oriented, client/server applications on Intel PCs, Sun and HP
workstations.

The release of Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J is NeXT's first localized
Enterprise Objects Framework release for the Japanese product. Enterprise
Objects Framework 1.1J extends NeXT's object-oriented database technology
to the Japanese market by seamlessly integrating object-oriented
applications with data from relational Japanese databases from Sybase,
Inc. and Oracle Corporation.

"The release of these Japanese products emphasizes our commitment to
setting the global standard in object-oriented technology," said Steve
Jobs, chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer. "In addition, we plan to increase
our market share leadership by leveraging our partnerships with Sun and
Hewlett Packard in Japan, just as we are doing in the United States and
Europe."

"The main advantage of NeXT's Japanese products is that you can now develop
applications that will run on Intel, HP PA-RISC, Sun, and Motorola 68K
platforms," said Yasuyuki Kato, Senior Research Engineer, Intelligent
Software Research Group at NTT Access Network Systems Laboratories.
"Because we are able to take advantage of both the powerful RISC
architecture and NeXT's Object-oriented solution we are able to
strategically meet our aggressive growth plan."

NEXTSTEP Release3.3J

NEXTSTEP 3.3J will support all of the features of the standard NEXTSTEP
Release 3.3 and include additional capabilities and applications specific
to the Japanese market. With the release of NEXTSTEP 3.3J provides users
with greater support for large-scale environments typical of NeXT's
corporate customers. Specifically, it addresses issues such as
interoperability, scalability, and ease of use that are critical to
application deployment.

Japanese customers will see enhancements in the operating system, such as
Japanese MIME support in the NextMail application. Additional Japanese
software is included, such as an Input Manager that allows Japanese
character input , Japanese-aware UNIX commands, and the Gaji Manager that
allows users to create personalized characters.

NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J provides stepping stone to OpenStep

NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J is designed to aid customers who need to
rapidly develop robust and easy-to-maintain client/server applications. It
is also a stepping-stone for developers planning to deploy OpenStep on
Windows NT, Windows 95, Solaris and Digital UNIX applications in the
future.

The visual development tools, including NeXT's industry-acclaimed Interface
Builder, have been improved in this release to ease development and
promote greater object re-use. For example, new tools enable developers to
navigate the Foundation class clusters more easily and developers can now
build complete palettes containing precompiled objects for rapid re-use
without writing code.

NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.3J also includes improved C++ support. The new
C++ compiler, which supports multiple inheritance and templates, allows
developers to create C++ objects as well as Objective C objects. NEXTSTEP
Developer 3.3 continues to support Objective C++, NeXT's integrated
Objective C & C++ compiler.

For those operating in heterogeneous computing environments, NEXTSTEP
Developer Release 3.3J enables customers to build enterprise-wide,
client/server applications to run on any of four hardware platforms -
Intel PCs, PA-RISC and SPARC workstations and NeXT Computers. For example,
developers can create a single executable, install the application on a
network and run the application on any of the four architectures.

NEXTSTEP Developer 3.3J's extended Driver Kit provides fully
object-oriented class libraries that allow developers to develop drivers
for new PC technologies, including portables. It supports PCI, PCMCIA and
Advanced Power Management. Additionally, open application APIs, such as IP
Multicast, provide support for broadcast messaging and the framework for
multimedia networking and live information feeds.

EOF 1.1J provides access to existing relational databases

The Enterprise Objects Framework 1.1J is NeXT's revolutionary technology
which enables customers to rapidly build reusable business and
application-level objects that are independent of underlying databases.
Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1J seamlessly integrates
object-oriented applications with data from Japanese releases of leading
relational databases from Oracle Corporation and Sybase, Inc.

Specifically, Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1J provides for high
performance in three critical areas: application start-up time, virtual
memory usage and CPU usage.

Enterprise Objects integrate business data with the business policies that
make the data meaningful. For example, a customer credit rating (data) has
little meaning separate from the policy that determines credit ratings. In
addition, a credit rating that is computed according to an obsolete policy
is erroneous. As a result of existing within the NEXTSTEP application
development environment, Enterprise Objects can be reused in application
after application. Therefore, as business requirements change, the
policies in effect for a particular business object can easily be
redefined and every application automatically incorporates the new
policies.

The Enterprise Objects Framework Modules

The Enterprise Object Modeler is used by developers to build Enterprise
Objects (NeXT's term for business objects); and create a mapping structure
that sits between these Enterprise Objects and the databases used by the
application. If the structure of the database changes, the Enterprise
Object Modeler can be used to reconfigure the mapping structure.

The Framework enables Enterprise Objects to run on the NEXTSTEP operating
system and is required for all systems on which Enterprise Objects
Framework-built applications will be deployed. This module is available
for NEXTSTEP today and will be available for the PDO platforms this
summer, enabling Enterprise Objects to be deployed on servers running
HP-UX, SUN OS, Solaris and Digital UNIX operating systems.

The adaptor layer provides database independence by enabling the Framework
to communicate to a variety of RDBMSs, transparent to Enterprise Objects.
Today, database adaptors for Oracle and Sybase are bundled with the
product. Other adaptors are available from database vendors and third
party developers.

Pricing and Availability

Enterprise Objects Framework Release 1.1J, NEXTSTEP 3.3J and NEXTSTEP
Developer 3.3J are all now available worldwide.

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 UNIX 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.
 
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