Le Club Macintosh de MontrƯal
Publication: Mac@Zine
Issue: March/April 1996
Author: John Markle
Series: What's NeXT?
Title: What's NeXT in 1996
Image: A large jpeg from NeXT's Web site was the issue's centrefold, with the text placed on one side. The image showed a central column of products from NeXT (OPENSTEP API, PDO, EOF and WOF) connecting with OPENSTEP for Mach, Solaris, Windows 95 and NT, connecting with object-enabled client/servers using OLE/COM and CORBA, conecting with SQL data sources such as Oracle, Sybase and Informix using EOF, and connecting with the Internet/LAN using WOF.
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What's NeXT in 1996
by John Markle

	On January 15th, 1996, NeXT announced that it was shipping Distributed OLE (D'OLE) and the Enterprise Objects Framework (EOF) for Windows NT, enabling Windows-based developers to create distributed applications that can employ reusable business objects, can run on multiple platforms, and can be scaled to an enterprise-wide level.

	On January 30th, at WebMania in San Fransisco, they announced a name change to NeXT Software Inc., and a recent list of job opportunities revealed that they now have three product lines - WebObjects, Middleware, and Development Tools - in addition to their Professional Services division which helps customers get up to speed quickly. Their WebObjects product line will begin shipping at the end of March and will consist of three products: WebObjects, the free entry-level product now in its beta release, allows organizations to start building dynamic Web sites today; WebObjects Pro will give developers the ability to build reusable Web components; and, WebObjects Enterprise will enable developers to bring a corporation's entire computing infrastructure to the Web. Like all of NeXT's software, these new products ROCK, so stay tuned for more exciting news in 1996.


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