During the 2008 Users Conference held on May 13-May 16, 2008, in Naples, Florida DataWorks CEO, Mark Cecil revealed the feature set of the upcoming version 5 of NeXT, code named "NeedleFish".
At the conclusion of the presentation, Cecil stated that Needlefish will ship on or before September 2008.
The version following Needlefish is already being planned and Cecil invited conference attendees to log in to the client portal of DataWorks web site and cast their votes for the features they would like to see in future versions.