Thomson Software Products (TSP) was a software development

Software development

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 corporation based in Norwalk, Connecticut

Norwalk, Connecticut

Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the city is 85,603, making Norwalk sixth in population in Connecticut, and third in Fairfield County...

 with engineering and support facilities in Norwalk and San Diego, California

San Diego, California

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. Established in July 1995, the corporation became half of Aonix

Aonix

In January 2010, Aonix and Artisan Software Tools agreed to merge, forming a new company to be called Atego.Atego is a software development corporation headquartered in the USA and the United Kingdom with subsidiaries in France, Germany, and the Italy.- Aonix history :Aonix was formed in November...

 in 1996.

TSP was a United States

United States

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 subsidiary of the French

France

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 multinational Thomson-CSF

Thomson-CSF

Thomson-CSF was a major electronics and defence contractor. In December 2000 it was renamed Thales Group.-History:In 1879 Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston formed the Thomson-Houston Electric Company in the United States....

 formed by merging the Thomson subsidiary Alsys

Alsys

The company Alsys, SA. was a software development company created to support initial work on the Ada programming language.In July 1995, Alsys merged to become Thomson Software Products ,, which merged into Aonix in 1996....

 of San Diego with Must Software International of Norwalk. The company did not integrate the activities of its two components before its own merger with Interactive Development Environments, Inc. to form Aonix in November 1996. The ex-Must staff in Norwalk continued to provide client/server fourth-generation language (4GL) and middleware

Middleware

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 products, while the ex-Alsys worked on high-performance Ada development environments and the TeleUSE family of graphical user interface

Graphical user interface

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development tools.