MCI SELECTS NEXTSTEP TO SUPPORT FRIENDS & FAMILY CUSTOMER SERVICE SYSTEMS

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - February 7, 1995 - NeXT Computer, Inc. announced
today that MCI has selected its object-oriented software, NEXTSTEP, for
the development and delivery of custom applications for MCI's New Friends
& Family program.

Introduced in January, New Friends & Family offers customers who spend just
$10 a month 25% savings on all domestic direct-dialed calls, and 50%
savings to other Friends & Family customers in their Calling Circle.

To further streamline and improve its customer service applications, MCI
has placed a multi-million dollar order for NeXT products, including the
advanced PDO (Portable Distributed Objects) and Enterprise Object
Framework, which will help advance the company's specialized customer
service stations.

"We are excited to work with a leading telecommunications innovator like
MCI," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "MCI's
speed-to-market and track record with Friends & Family, 1-800-COLLECT and
Friends & Family Connections is unmatched, and we look forward to helping
them bring more advanced products like these to market even faster. MCI's
commitment to our technology is another step in the marketplace acceptance
of object technology in general," Jobs added.

"We believe in NeXT's object technology, because it speeds our development
cycles, keeping us ahead of the competitive curve, and significantly
improves our time-to-market with new products and services," said Jim
Folk, Vice President of Information Technology for MCI Consumer Markets.
"We selected NeXT technology because NEXTSTEP/OpenStep is a powerful
object-oriented development environment that allows us to build
applications in shorter timeframes and spend more time focusing on
customer needs rather than in the lab."

MCI

MCI, headquartered in Washington, D.C., has expanded from its core long
distance business to become the world's third-largest carrier of
international calling and a premier provider of data communications over
the vast Internet computer network. With annual revenue of more than $13.3
billion, the company today provides a wide array of consumer and business
long distance and local services, data and video communications, online
information, electronic mail, network management services and
communications software.

NeXT Computer, Inc.

NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP object-oriented
software for industry-standard computer architectures. Customers use
NEXTSTEP's advanced object environment to rapidly develop and deploy
custom, enterprise-wide, client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered
in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North America, London,
Paris, Munich and Tokyo.

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