Steve Jobs previews NeXTSTEP 3 0 at NeXTWorld Expo 1992

1992-01-221:50:11English

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On behalf of Next World Magazine, Next Computer Inc, and World Expo Corp, welcome to the first ever Next World Expo.
I'm Dan Ruby, the editor-in-chief of Next World Magazine.
Thank you.
Next World Expo is the defining event that kicks off what I believe will be Next's breakthrough year.
1991 was the year that confirmed Next's technical leadership and established its sales momentum.
1992 will be the year that the computer market as a whole recognizes that Next is one of the very few computer companies driving the industry forward.
Next World Expo gathers all that momentum, imagination, and excitement for three days under this roof.
This is a show that offers something for everyone in the Next community.
It combines a product exposition of more than 125 booths,
a user conference of panel discussions covering issues
and trends in Next related products, technologies,
and markets, a developer conference covering
technical information for Next developers,
and a user group conference for members of Next user groups
around the globe.
This is indeed an international conference,
appropriate for a computer platform that is indeed global.
We have attendees here from as far away as Moscow
in the Commonwealth of Independent States
and from countries on every continent on the earth,
as well as virtually every state of the United States.
Next World Expo was planned and produced in record time.
Most computer trade shows take up to a year to put together.
This one took exactly 88 days from the day in early October
that Next and Next World agreed to put on the show.
We all know that Next's object-oriented development
environment allows you to build applications faster
and better, and it turns out that the energy in this market
allows you to accelerate many other processes as well.
So congratulations to each of you
for putting aside your other priorities
and making it here for these three days.
This is a unique chance to learn, to do business,
to help set the agenda for the next market in 1992 and beyond.
We expect that there will be other expos both here
and in next international markets in the future,
but you'll have the pleasure of telling those Johnny-come-latelys
that you were here when it all began.
I've got just a couple of announcements to make,
starting with a self-serving plug.
The spring issue of Next World magazine,
which was held back by three weeks in order to coincide with this expo,
is available on the show floor immediately after this keynote.
And we're also distributing a show special edition
of our Next World Extra newsletter.
Tomorrow's keynote address, beginning here in this room at 9 a.m.
and open to all expo attendees, has two parts.
There will be a warm-up session with Next World's irrepressible reviews
columnists Barlow and Lavin,
and they'll be followed by another dynamic duo, industry pundits Stuart Alsop and Jonathan Sebold,
who are certain to stir up some controversy with their views on various issues confronting the next community.
This afternoon at 6 p.m., following the general session, 10 Most Wanted in Polk Hall,
the Next Organizations International, or NOIR, will host an auction of Next-related products and memorabilia,
and I encourage you to attend and bid unabashedly to help raise funds for this worthwhile user organization.
Finally, I'd like to thank the many people who helped make this expo possible.
They're too numerous to mention, but the three individuals who devoted their lives for the past three months to making this expo happen
are Janine Bernard, the associate publisher of Next World, Liz Statmore, the show project manager from Next Computer,
and Bill Sell, the show manager from World Expo Corp.
Also, the expo would not have come off
without the contributions of almost 200 volunteer workers,
mostly recruited from Next user groups
around the country and the world.
Thanks to everybody who pitched in to make this event possible.
And now, to kick off the show in grand fashion,
it's my great pleasure to introduce
the man who's responsible for all of us being here today,
the founder, CEO, and chairman of Next Computer Inc., Steve Jobs.
Thanks, doctor.
Good morning.
And welcome to the first Next World Expo.
Isn't this remarkable?
As Dan said, there are people here from users groups
all over the planet.
Moscow, Yugoslavia, Finland, Australia.
It's incredibly remarkable to all of us at Next
that this entire community has gotten together
at Next World Expo.
We have a lot to tell you today.
And let me just jump right into it.
It's going to take us about an hour, an hour and a half.
And I think you're going to really find it exciting.
OK.
We want to come back.
cover four things today.
1991 in review, we're going to tell you how we did in 1991.
What did we learn from 1991?
Tell you all about Next Step Release 3.0,
and then the new Next Step hardware for 1992.
That's our agenda for today.
Let's jump into it.
How did we do in 1991?
We grew over 400% in revenues.
As you can see, the recession got to our whole industry,
and next was no exception in Q3.
We saw some moderate recovery in Q4,
and we expect Q1 to be back on the growth track for 1992.
So we worked very, very hard in 1991,
along with many of the people in this room,
and grew over 400% in probably the worst recessionary
environment in memory.
Another accomplishment in 91 was we dramatically increased
the percentage of our business that
has come from commercial and government markets.
Higher education continues to be a very strong foundation
for us, but now over 80% of our business
is coming from commercial and government markets,
where we see very strong growth ahead for 1992.
Another very bright light in 1991
was that 43% of our business came from outside of North
America.
And that's been a percentage that's
been holding pretty constant.
And we think it's going to hold and possibly grow in 1992.
We feel good about spreading our risks around the globe.
And we think there's a lot of opportunity
in places everywhere on the globe for next computers.
Now, in North America and in Europe,
we have built our own sales forces.
But in the Pacific, we decided to partner with Canon.
And they distribute our products in Japan

Transcript

Machine transcript in the original language. It may contain errors. Select a timestamp to play that moment.

On behalf of Next World Magazine, Next Computer Inc, and World Expo Corp, welcome to the first ever Next World Expo.

I'm Dan Ruby, the editor-in-chief of Next World Magazine.

Thank you.

Next World Expo is the defining event that kicks off what I believe will be Next's breakthrough year.

1991 was the year that confirmed Next's technical leadership and established its sales momentum.

1992 will be the year that the computer market as a whole recognizes that Next is one of the very few computer companies driving the industry forward.

Next World Expo gathers all that momentum, imagination, and excitement for three days under this roof.

This is a show that offers something for everyone in the Next community.

It combines a product exposition of more than 125 booths,

a user conference of panel discussions covering issues

and trends in Next related products, technologies,

and markets, a developer conference covering

technical information for Next developers,

and a user group conference for members of Next user groups

around the globe.

This is indeed an international conference,

appropriate for a computer platform that is indeed global.

We have attendees here from as far away as Moscow

in the Commonwealth of Independent States

and from countries on every continent on the earth,

as well as virtually every state of the United States.

Next World Expo was planned and produced in record time.

Most computer trade shows take up to a year to put together.

This one took exactly 88 days from the day in early October

that Next and Next World agreed to put on the show.

We all know that Next's object-oriented development

environment allows you to build applications faster

and better, and it turns out that the energy in this market

allows you to accelerate many other processes as well.

So congratulations to each of you

for putting aside your other priorities

and making it here for these three days.

This is a unique chance to learn, to do business,

to help set the agenda for the next market in 1992 and beyond.

We expect that there will be other expos both here

and in next international markets in the future,

but you'll have the pleasure of telling those Johnny-come-latelys

that you were here when it all began.

I've got just a couple of announcements to make,

starting with a self-serving plug.

The spring issue of Next World magazine,

which was held back by three weeks in order to coincide with this expo,

is available on the show floor immediately after this keynote.

And we're also distributing a show special edition

of our Next World Extra newsletter.

Tomorrow's keynote address, beginning here in this room at 9 a.m.

and open to all expo attendees, has two parts.

There will be a warm-up session with Next World's irrepressible reviews

columnists Barlow and Lavin,

and they'll be followed by another dynamic duo, industry pundits Stuart Alsop and Jonathan Sebold,

who are certain to stir up some controversy with their views on various issues confronting the next community.

This afternoon at 6 p.m., following the general session, 10 Most Wanted in Polk Hall,

the Next Organizations International, or NOIR, will host an auction of Next-related products and memorabilia,

and I encourage you to attend and bid unabashedly to help raise funds for this worthwhile user organization.

Finally, I'd like to thank the many people who helped make this expo possible.

They're too numerous to mention, but the three individuals who devoted their lives for the past three months to making this expo happen

are Janine Bernard, the associate publisher of Next World, Liz Statmore, the show project manager from Next Computer,

and Bill Sell, the show manager from World Expo Corp.

Also, the expo would not have come off

without the contributions of almost 200 volunteer workers,

mostly recruited from Next user groups

around the country and the world.

Thanks to everybody who pitched in to make this event possible.

And now, to kick off the show in grand fashion,

it's my great pleasure to introduce

the man who's responsible for all of us being here today,

the founder, CEO, and chairman of Next Computer Inc., Steve Jobs.

Thanks, doctor.

Good morning.

And welcome to the first Next World Expo.

Isn't this remarkable?

As Dan said, there are people here from users groups

all over the planet.

Moscow, Yugoslavia, Finland, Australia.

It's incredibly remarkable to all of us at Next

that this entire community has gotten together

at Next World Expo.

We have a lot to tell you today.

And let me just jump right into it.

It's going to take us about an hour, an hour and a half.

And I think you're going to really find it exciting.

OK.

We want to come back.

cover four things today.

1991 in review, we're going to tell you how we did in 1991.

What did we learn from 1991?

Tell you all about Next Step Release 3.0,

and then the new Next Step hardware for 1992.

That's our agenda for today.

Let's jump into it.

How did we do in 1991?

We grew over 400% in revenues.

As you can see, the recession got to our whole industry,

and next was no exception in Q3.

We saw some moderate recovery in Q4,

and we expect Q1 to be back on the growth track for 1992.

So we worked very, very hard in 1991,

along with many of the people in this room,

and grew over 400% in probably the worst recessionary

environment in memory.

Another accomplishment in 91 was we dramatically increased

the percentage of our business that

has come from commercial and government markets.

Higher education continues to be a very strong foundation

for us, but now over 80% of our business

is coming from commercial and government markets,

where we see very strong growth ahead for 1992.

Another very bright light in 1991

was that 43% of our business came from outside of North

America.

And that's been a percentage that's

been holding pretty constant.

And we think it's going to hold and possibly grow in 1992.

We feel good about spreading our risks around the globe.

And we think there's a lot of opportunity

in places everywhere on the globe for next computers.

Now, in North America and in Europe,

we have built our own sales forces.

But in the Pacific, we decided to partner with Canon.

And they distribute our products in Japan