It won’t be until the middle of next year that Taligent Inc’s CommonPoint application environment will be able to exchange objects with non-Taligent environments across heterogeneous systems. Meantime, the company’s CP Professional development environment is now out at 15 beta sites and will ship in the first quarter. Taligent claims 50 indpendent software vendors, six integrators and enough funding to see it through to 1997. Last week the firm snapped-up Milpitas, California-based Sierra Atlantic Inc’s Object Gateway, which it will integrate into CommonPoint as Object-SQL-Mapper, enabling applications to update relational databases using C++ instead of SQL. The company is also offering a bundle of services and products, consulting, education, IBM Corp’s CommonPoint for AIX development kit, IBM’s CommonPoint application environment, TakeFive Software GmbH’s Sniff++ browser, OpenObjects Inc’s Look! debugger and a Netscape browser from $40,000 for one development licence – $12,000 for each additional user.
