StepStone is the name of a worldwide total talent software company http://www.stepstone.com

In the USA - Stepstone (originally Productivity Products International) was a software company founded in 1983 by Brad Cox and Tom Love, best known for releasing the original version of the Objective-C programming language.

In April 1995, NeXT acquired the Objective-C trademark and rights from Stepstone. At the same time, Stepstone licensed back from NeXT the right to continue selling their Objective-C based products. http://www.objc.info/news/aquisition/The US software company Stepstone appears to have gone out of business in 2002. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.objective-c/browse_frm/thread/a916b39222d4b0fb/47f277317206e50a?lnk=st&q=stepstn&rnum=1&hl=en#47f277317206e50a

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