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Steve jobs got burnt by enterprise customers at NeXT. Once he got burnt he had a habit of pivoting away and never revisiting a subject.

Which is a shame NeXT (apple) had a world leading ORM and RPC system in 1990. It would still impress people today.

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I dunno about that. The ORM was DatabaseKit? That didn't make into OS X, but if DO is the RPC system, that was available in Mac OS X. It was full of security holes and was prone to deadlocks.

I also suspect people raised alongside ubiquitous web 2.0 technology would be a lot less impressed with the NeXT demos than all of us who saw them with pre-web eyes.

I was thinking enterprise objects framework which came after they realized databasekit was a dud.

It’s equivalent to rails or similar orms. But it integrated with interface builder. See this [1] demo about 23 minutes in… just after he demos how great next step handles faces. He demos building a query crud app fully drag n drop.

Are you sure DO was available in OS X?

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UiGnpmwAJk

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