Ð Steve Jobs, CEO, NeXT
"NeXTSTEP is the best software on the planet but it's been locked in a black box for seven years."
Ð Peter van Cuylenburg, president, NeXT
"There is now a much stronger business argument to develop on NeXTSTEP. Now I can go into a bank and get money for a NeXTSTEP project. The world has nodded to NeXTSTEP as the leading object-oriented operating system."
Ð Vince Jordan, director of development, WilTel
"We sincerely and honestly hoped this was going to happen. Software is the key to our production and the more NeXT focuses on software, the better off we'll be using it."
Ð Craig Heimark, managing director of information technology, Swiss Bank Corporation
"Now that NeXT has given up on its hardware business, maybe it will be able to partner with a big hardware manufacturer. If so, then they made the right decision. If not, I don't see how NeXT has a shot to compete."
Ð Stewart Alsop, industry pundit
"This transition liberates NeXT's software from its proprietary hardware and allows NeXTSTEP to reach the broadest base of users in the industry. This liberation could fuel an explosion in NeXT acceptance."
Ð W. Frank King, president, Pencom Software
"It was absolutely the right decision. If NeXT is successful, then we are too. We're not changing anything we're doing."
Ð Larry Spelhaug, president, Pages Software
"The big win is that NeXTSTEP will become a mainstream operating environment. It will be one of the two or three dominant operating environments of the next ten years."
Ð David Pollak, president, Athena Design