Texas Instruments Inc’s Ashford, Kent-based JMA Information Engineering Ltd has launched a client-server version of the Dallas company’s Information Engineering Facility applications development environment, which it claims generates complete client-server applications across multiple systems and application styles. IEF will be available on Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP 9000 Unix servers running an Oracle Corp database as of September 15; Sun Microsystems Inc’s Solaris as of December 15; and Tandem Computers Inc’s Integrity, Sequent Computer Systems Corp’s Symmetry and IBM Corp’s RS/6000 from the first quarter of 1994. Client environments will be Microsoft Corp’s Windows, IBM’s OS/2 and Motif-based Unix boxes. A development licence for five users costs about UKP130,000. From October 1993, the company will also formalise the agreement made with Texas Instruments Inc on its acquisition by its supplier two years ago, eliminating all echoes of James Martin and his Associates by changing its name to TI Information Engineering Ltd.
