Some chronology: An end of 1995 article: https://web.archive.org/web/20070610194914/http://www.businessweek.com/1995/51/b345595.htm https://web.archive.org/we

Some chronology: An end of 1995 article: https://web.archive.org/web/20070610194914/http://www.businessweek.com/1995/51/b345595.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20070610194914/http://www.busine... "APPLE'S COPLAND: NEW! IMPROVED! NOT HERE YET!" "Says one recently departed Apple engineer: ``There's no way in hell Copland ships next year. I just hope it ships in 1997.''" One year later: https://www.cultofmac.com/459054/apple-buys-next/ https://www.cultofmac.com/459054/apple-buys-next/ "December 20, 1996: Apple Computer buys NeXT, the computer company Steve Jobs founded after leaving Cupertino a decade earlier." A little more than two years after that, already 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Server_1.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Server_1.0 "Mac OS X Server 1.0, released on March 16, 1999,[1] is the first operating system released into the retail market by Apple Computer based on NeXT technology."