New York Ð NeXT and Hewlett-Packard demonstrated a working Portable Distributed Object (PDO) system here in September at UNIX Expo '93, and officials indicated that the real-world deployment of PDO was forging ahead.
The PDO Developer Kit was in "about a dozen" beta sites at press time, according to Paul Vais, head of NeXT's RISC business unit. Vais said that pricing and availability had not yet been determined.
In addition, NeXT Marketing Manager for Financial Services Jim McCrory said that NeXT plans to make PDO fully CORBA-compliant "as CORBA gets closer to reality" and to make its porting tools available to OEMs to create their own PDO servers.
He added that he expects Data General to offer its own PDO system soon after the HP release.