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NeXT Software, Inc. was a computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California that developed and manufactured two computer workstations during its existence, the NeXTcube and the NeXTstation. Both systems were aimed at the higher education and business markets. more...

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NeXT was founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs after his resignation from Apple Computer. In addition to its hardware, NeXT developed the NeXTSTEP operating system, later retooled as a framework capable of running on several different operating systems, competing against Windows NT and the upcoming Cairo, an object-oriented version of Windows NT. In 1993, NeXT withdrew from the hardware business and, on February 7, 1997, was bought out by Apple. Some of NeXT's software was later used as the foundation for Mac OS X.

Early history

After a successful 1984, Apple Computer struggled in 1985. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was at the time head of Apple's SuperMicro division, which was responsible for Macintosh and Lisa development. The division failed to release upgraded versions of the Macintosh and most of the Macintosh Office. As a result, sales plummeted, and Apple was forced to write off millions of dollars in unsold inventory. Apple CEO John Sculley was forced to start curbing Jobs' power at Apple, eventually removing him as head of the SuperMicro division and replacing him with Jean-Louis Gassée. Later that year, Jobs started to regret hiring Sculley as the new CEO, and began a brief power struggle to regain control of the company. The board of directors sided with Sculley, and Jobs began an extended tour of Europe and the Soviet Union on behalf of Apple.

The Macintosh computer had been hugely successful on university campuses, largely because of the Apple University Consortium, which allowed students and institutions to buy Macintoshes at significant discounts. Jobs, in his role as chairman, visited influential university buying departments, and sometimes even influential faculty members, trying to sell them Macintoshes. One of the professors he spoke to was Paul Berg, a Nobel Laureate, who Jobs met at dinner held in Silicon Valley to honor François Mitterrand. Berg was frustrated by the expense of teaching students about recombinant DNA from textbooks instead of in the wet lab. Unfortunately, the wet labs were prohibitively expensive for lower level courses. Berg suggested that Jobs use his influence at Apple to create a 3M workstation (which were named for their megabyte of RAM, megapixel display and megaflop performance) capable of running wet lab simulations in software.