OTHER NEWS - April 15, 1993

Next Software Wins Allies: Next Computer Inc. said its NextStep software will be offered by six computer manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Computer Corp., beginning next month. The announcement marked Next’s first alliances with computer manufacturers since February, when Chief Executive Steve Jobs said his company would stop manufacturing computers. “These partnerships lay the foundation for the success of NextStep in the Intel marketplace,” Jobs said in a statement. “NextStep will be running on more than 100 different PCs on May 25. This will complete our transition to a software company.”