Taligent Inc duly announced plans to deliver the 1.0 reference release of the CommonPoint application system to its investors, Apple Computer Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp later this month and IBM said it would be the first to bring the Taligent framework technology to market with its CommonPoint Applications System for AIX and the CommonPoint Application Development Toolkit when they ship on July 28. CommonPoint is an operating system-independent environment that supports creation and deployment of distributed business applications. It is aimed at experienced C++ developers building distributed, multi-system, object-oriented applications and consists of a set of some 100 integrated object-oriented application and system services frameworks claimed to provide a wide array of re-usable application function. CommonPoint 1.0 includes a compound document structure, saveless document storage model, extensible application components, integgrated two- and three-dimensional graphics, photo-realistic imaging, WYSIWYG colour matching, business-oriented multimedia, international text, localisation services, a set of foundation objects and task-centered user interface extensions. System service-level features include support for vendor-independent database access, shared document collaboration, multi-cast command routing, transport-independent communications, component licensing and a machine-independent distributed object model. IBM plans a version for OS/2 and Taligent also plans versions for Windows NT and Windows95. For the AIX version on the RS/6000, customers will pay a single one-time charge of $5,900 for the CommonPoint Application Development Toolkit for AIX, Version 1.1, which includes the CommonPoint Application System and the cpConstruct or, regardless of processor type or number of users. The CommonPoint Application System for AIX 1.1 is also available separately at a one-time charge of $1,500.
