NeXT
Sign in to savethumb|In the early 1990s, NeXT sold this complete NeXTstation. NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California, which specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed the first dynamic web page software. It was founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer co-founder who had been removed from Apple that year. NeXT debuted with the NeXT Computer in 1988, and released the NeXTcube and smaller NeXTstation in 1990. The series had relatively limited sale
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- Company.name
- NeXT, Inc.
- Company.logo
- NeXT logo.svg
- Company.logo_upright
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- Company.logo_caption
- The corporate logo was designed by Paul Rand.
- Company.image
- 900 Chesapeake Drive.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Redwood City headquarters at 900 Chesapeake Drive, July 2022
- Company.logo_alt
- NeXT's logo is a 28° black cube with the letters of "NeXT" engraved in the front.
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.fate
- Bought by Apple Computer, Inc.
- Company.successor
- Apple Inc.
- Company.founder
- Steve Jobs
- Company.hq_location_city
- Redwood City, California
- Company.hq_location_country
- U.S.
- Company.num_employees
- 530
- Company.num_employees_year
- 1993
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Background
- Original NeXT team
- 1987–1993: NeXT Computer
- First generation
- Second generation
- 1993–1996: NeXT Software, Inc.
- 1997–2006: Acquisition by Apple
- Corporate culture and community
- Legacy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|In the early 1990s, NeXT sold this complete NeXTstation. NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California, which specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed the first dynamic web page software. It was founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer co-founder who had been removed from Apple that year. NeXT debuted with the NeXT Computer in 1988, and released the NeXTcube and smaller NeXTstation in 1990. The series had relatively limited sales, with only about 50,000 total units shipped. Nevertheless, the object-oriented programming and graphical user interface were highly influential trendsetters of computer innovation.
NeXT partnered with Sun Microsystems to create a programming environment called OpenStep, which decoupled the NeXTSTEP operating system's application layer to host it on third-party operating systems. In 1993, NeXT withdrew from the hardware industry to concentrate on marketing OPENSTEP for Mach, its own OpenStep implementation for several other computer vendors. NeXT developed WebObjects, one of the first enterprise web frameworks, and although its market appeal was limited by its high price of , it is a prominent early example of dynamic web pages rather than static content.
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