NeXT was a computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured two computer workstations during its existence, the NeXTcube and NeXTstation. Both systems were aimed at the higher education and business markets. 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 sold for other processors as OPENSTEP, competing against Windows 95. In 1993, NeXT withdrew from its hardware business and on February 7, 1997 was bought out by Apple; NeXT's software was used as the foundation for Mac OS X. [2]

Early history

In 1985, Steve Jobs began to regret his hiring of John Sculley as the CEO of Apple, and started a brief power struggle to regain control of the company. Societ di consulenza che opera affiancando le organizzazioni sociali, pubbliche e private, nelle scelte organizzative, gestionali e nelle strategie di comunicazione e promozione. The board of directors stood behind Sculley, and Jobs was stripped of most of his duties. [3] After a few months of being sidelined, he resigned.

A few months after his departure from Apple, Jobs visited universities to determine the future direction of the computing industry. He developed a concept for an object-oriented toolkit aimed primarily at the academic market. The toolkit would take advantage of the latest technologies: PostScript for display, the Mach kernel, and object-oriented programming.

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