From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Data General, NeXT Announce Relationship
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:29:43 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com

News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Contacts:       Allison Thomas                  Stephanie Bigusiak
                Allison Thomas Associates       Data General
                (818) 981-1520                  (508) 898-4293


Data General, NeXT Announce Relationship


WESTBORO, Mass., August 4, 1992  - Data General Corporation and NeXT
Computer, Inc. today announced a relationship in which Data General
will resell NeXT workstations with AViiON servers.  In addition, the
two companies will cooperate in the further development of advanced
client/server solutions.

"Our AViiON servers combined with NeXT's revolutionary
object-oriented workstations will offer the best client/server
solution in the industry," said Ronald L. Skates, president and CEO
of Data General.  "As our customers move their strategic business
applications to client/server systems, they can use AViiON servers to
guarantee availability and security of their data and NeXT
workstations to access this data effectively."

"We think this collaboration will open up new markets to NeXT and
expand our overall distribution capability," said Steven P. Jobs,
chairman and CEO of NeXT.  "This is especially important as corporate
America re-engineers its business processes to achieve greater
productivity."

Client/Server Solutions for Mission-Critical Applications
Using NeXT workstations and AViiON servers, companies can provide
their users with database-driven custom applications.  Data General's
AViiON servers support the industry's leading relational databases,
including Oracle, Sybase, Ingres and Informix. These
high-availability servers, in combination with disk arrays, offer
data security and back-up products that preserve the integrity of
customers' data, even in the event of equipment or power failures.

 
NeXT's workstations run NeXTSTEP, the industry-acclaimed
object-oriented environment that enables corporate customers to
create and deploy their mission-critical custom applications five to
10 times faster than ever before.  In addition, NeXT's new Database
Kit of objects allows even faster creation of client/server
applications that rely on intensive database usage on the server, and
provides a single, consistent interface to SQL databases from
multiple vendors.

As part of its complete client/server solution, Data General will
also port NeXT's NetInfo to its AViiON servers by the end of 1992.
NeXT recently began licensing the source code for NetInfo, its
network administration software.  NetInfo lets system administrators
manage users, machines, file systems and other network resources on
UNIX networks, and can be ported to any UNIX-based computer.  Based
on a distributed, extensible database, NetInfo gives system
administrators a much more flexible and manageable access control
scheme than with other UNIX network administration tools.  NetInfo
ported to AViiON will provide top-quality support of heterogeneous
NeXTSTEP/AViiON environments by AViiON servers.

About NeXT Computer
NeXT Computer, Inc. designs and markets the industry-acclaimed
NeXTSTEP object-oriented software environment, and designs,
manufactures and markets UNIX-based workstations that run NeXTSTEP.
NeXTSTEP and NeXT workstations are used by medium and large
organizations to develop and deploy mission-critical  applications,
using both custom and shrink-wrapped software.  NeXT is headquartered
at 900 Chesapeake Drive, Redwood City, California, 94063.

About Data General Corporation
Data General is a leading manufacturer of computer systems for
business, industry, government, and education.  The company reported
revenues of $1.23 billion and net income of $85.6 million for fiscal
year 1991.


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AViiON is a registered trademark of Data General Corporation.  NeXT,
the NeXT logo and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
UNIX is a registered trademark of Unix Systems Laboratory.   All
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