Texas Instruments Inc has announced Composer, a client-server application development tool that will ship in the next quarter. It is one of the first products to conform to the Texas Instruments-Microsoft Corp object repository design that the two companies announced plans to develop last May. Texas says that Composer will enable end users and developers to re-use application components. It includes a graphical user interface supporting multiple clients, servers, development methodologies, and network topologies. Composer developers and users can access data from a variety of sources and clients can access data from, and partition data out, to multiple servers. Texas has embedded PeerLogic Inc’s Pipes Platform middleware for network independence. However, the real fruits of the joint development will not be realised until Composer supports the creation and manipulation of component-based objects. The Composer Workstation tool set starts at $11,000; Composer LAN Encyclopaedia at $20,000.
