Just as we had been getting to grips with TalAE, TalDE and TalOS, Taligent Inc has gone and chosen CommonPoint as the eminently forgettable product name for its Taligent Application Environment. Taligent, which was showing off the first prototype applications for the Taligent Application Environment framework set at Comdex, was less keen to reveal the fact that its architecture is now a couple of months behind schedule, with beta releases now not expected until late in the first quarter instead of by the end of the year. First applications were shown at Comdex from Adamation Inc, Abacus Concepts Inc, Brio Technology Inc, Iconix Software Engineering, Nisus Software Inc, University of California in Los Angeles and Virtus Corp. CommonPoint applications prototypes were also up under Mac OS, HP-UX, OS/2 and AIX. Taligent has also now drummed up a certification and branding programme for CommonPoint on different systems to ensure that applications developed for it are compatible across the host operating systems.
