NeXT Computer Inc, the non-computer company that’s about to change its name to NeXT Software Inc, now has the promised Windows NT versions of its Portable Distributed Objects 3.5 object engine and Object Request Broker as Distributed Object Linking & Embedding, plus version 1.1 of its Enterprise Object Framework for creating persistent objects from relational database elements. Portable Distributed Objects 4.0, to support Corba 2 mechanisms, is due in the second half. An enhanced version of Enterprise Object Framework, version 2.0, due in the third quarter is expected to relieve some of the requirement to hand-code objects from relational data types.
