Tulsa, OK Ð The business-litigation and securities law firm of Connor and Winters waited just one week after hearing the news of NeXT's software strategy to end an eight-month technology review and choose NeXTSTEP for Intel as its computing environment.
The firm inked a deal for between 85 and 100 copies of NeXT-STEP to run on Gateway and Dell '486 computers because "with the '486 solution, we've got flexibility. We're not hardware bound any more," said George Lowrey, MIS partner for Connor.
Portland, Oregon-based Inherent Technologies will provide legal-software integration, while Norman, Oklahoma-based Digital Revolution, tapped as the local-site integrator, will work with the firm to bring attorneys and staff up to speed on networking, e-mail, and word processing.
"They looked at [Windows] NT and NeXTSTEP and the future delivery of [Microsoft's] Cairo," said Gregory Miller, Inherent's president. "For application development and networking today, NeXTSTEP was the only real choice."