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NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets.

NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after his forced

resignation from Apple. NeXT introduced the first NeXT Computer in 1988, and the smaller NeXTstation in 1990. Sales of the NeXT computers were relatively limited, with estimates of about 50,000 units shipped in total. Nevertheless, its innovative object-oriented NeXTSTEP operating system and development environment were highly influential.

NeXT later released much of the NeXTSTEP system as a programming environment standard called OpenStep. NeXT withdrew from the hardware business in 1993 to concentrate on marketing OPENSTEP, its own OpenStep implementation, for several OEMs. NeXT also developed WebObjects, one of the first enterprise web application frameworks. WebObjects never became very popular because of its initial high price of $50,000 but remains a prominent early example of a web server based on dynamic page generation rather than static content. Apple purchased NeXT on December 20, 1996 for $429 million, and much of the current Mac OS X system is built on the OPENSTEP foundation. WebObjects is now bundled with Mac OS X Server and Xcode.

Lists Featuring This Company

Closed San Francisco Bay Area Education Companies
429 Number of Organizations • $1.4B Total Funding Amount • 593 Number of Investors
Closed Redwood City Companies
281 Number of Organizations • $5.3B Total Funding Amount • 761 Number of Investors
Closed West Coast Hardware Companies
465 Number of Organizations • $6B Total Funding Amount • 1,036 Number of Investors
Closed West Coast Education Companies
756 Number of Organizations • $2.3B Total Funding Amount • 790 Number of Investors
NeXT was acquired by Apple for $400M on Dec 20, 1996. This deal was done in Cash.

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