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From: dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: A small gripe
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.150151.17787@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 12 Nov 90 15:01:51 GMT
Reply-To: dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP (D. Carpenter)
Organization: Saint Joseph's University
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In article <5673@lanl.gov> jad@lanl.gov (John De Vries) writes:
>
>I just got back from the NeXT Registered Developer's Camp (which, once
>again I'll say was worth the money).  I did see something there that
>rather disturbed me, and that was a videotape of Steve Job's
>performance at Davies (sp?) Hall in San Francisco.
>
>Specifically, Steve was playing around with Interface Builder and
>showed how typically easy it was to hack out a useful interface in
>very little time.
>
>However, he was using a particular bunch of objects -- namely the
>database object -- to show things off.  We've got a fanatic around
>here that has been going around saying "hay, just wait -- they've got
>this database object that'll make things really neat."
>
>Well, I asked a number of folx at camp (they gave the students
>wonderful access to the worker-bees) about these objects.  Like, I
>want them NOW (as did a largish banking/investment firm), and seeing
>Jobs performance, one might think he wasn't touting vaporware.
>
>Well, he was, unfortunately.  They are indeed working on these
>objects, but they are not coming out in 2.0 (which is not released as
>of this writing -- they are using release Fuschia, level T in-house).
>Supposedly they will be a part of version 3.0, but I got the
>impression NOT to expect that Real Soon Now (more like a year from
>now).  These words were from "Dr. Mach" and Kate Smith...

NeXT was showing these database objects at Educom in October.  If
memory serves me correctly, the person who was demonstrating them
was the person who WROTE them, and he told me that NeXT would be
making them available soon, perhaps after the first of the year,
at a very reasonable price.  He said nothing about version 3.0.
So perhaps we can expect them sooner than the next OS release.

As I said in an earlier post on Educom, I received the impression,
from talking to people from NeXT at Educom, that NeXT has big
plans for 3.0.  I'm sure it will be worth the wait, but with a
little luck we won't have to wait that long for the database objects
you saw.
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David Carpenter            dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP                    
St. Joseph's University    dcarpent@sjuphil.sju.edu
Philadelphia, PA  19131