The Character of a Business Application

At first blush, OpenStep is the Foundation and Application frameworks and the tools you use to build graphical applications. The real power and significance of OpenStep, however, is in its object model, which is powerful enough to extend across processes and networks, to transform the static content of databases into live objects with logic built in, and to support the presentation of data in a variety of media. These abilities address many of the significant needs of business applications: support for multitier client/server architectures; access to relational databases; swift development and straightforward maintenance; and deployment on heterogeneous networks.