
NeXT, Inc. was an American computer company founded in 1985 by Steve Jobs after his departure from Apple, known for its advanced workstations and the NeXTSTEP operating system. Its technologies—including object‑oriented frameworks, Display PostScript, and Interface Builder—were highly influential and underpinned the birth of the World Wide Web on a NeXT machine at CERN. Apple acquired NeXT in early 1997 for roughly $400 million; NeXT’s software became the core of Mac OS X (now macOS).

Vercel is an American cloud platform company founded in 2015 that provides developer tools, frameworks, and managed infrastructure for building and deploying modern web applications. The company maintains the Next.js framework and offers services such as serverless and Fluid compute, storage, and analytics, with customers ranging from startups to large enterprises.