Creating global software: Text handling and localization in Taligent's CommonPoint application system

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 227-242

  Davis, M E ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Grimes, J D ^g   Knoles, D J ^g  

^a Taligent   (United States)

^b Core Technol Department at Taligent ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Systime AG   (Switzerland)

^f APPLE INC   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; USER INTERFACES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

GLOBAL SOFTWARE; TALINGENT'S COMMONPOINT APPLICATION SYSTEM;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0029718773     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.352.0227     Document Type: Article

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