The country will be treated as a distinct-sales territory with its own country manager, according to Warren Weiss, NeXT's vice-president of North American sales and marketing.
"There are great opportunities here in Mexico. We have several customers already, and we are opening the office with a new big customer," Weiss said.
Sources identify the customer as PEMEX, the giant national energy company, which is planning to purchase several thousand NEXTSTEP units. NEXTSTEP is already localized for the Spanish language.
The staff of the new office has yet to be named. The country manager will report to Weiss.