Kaleida Labs formed in 1991 to produce the multimedia cross-platform Kaleida Media Player and the object oriented scripting language ScriptX that was used to program its behavior.
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11 Facts About Kaleida Labs
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The Kaleida platform failed to gain significant traction and the company was closed in 1996.
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Kaleida Labs was staffed by hand picking members of Apple's QuickTime team, along with members from the big-iron content delivery side at IBM.
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Kaleida Labs was one of the earliest companies to post a corporate website.
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Kaleida Labs stated that Goldhaber would remain on the board in efforts to build industry partnerships, but blamed a lack of progress on this front, and Goldhaber's "hands off" management, as the main reasons for the switch.
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Kaleida Labs sought to bundle the KMP as system software with new personal computers.
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Kaleida Labs had been founded partly as an authoring environment for applications based on CD-ROMs.
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Kaleida Labs had been formed, to some degree, to offer an alternative to the Wintel platform for what at that point appeared to be an emerging market in the CD world.
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Kaleida Labs then started an effort to deliver objects over the Internet and deliver Web content.
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The Kaleida Labs Media Player was a complex interpreter that required several megabytes to run, and Kaleida Labs never achieved effective performance on a system with less than 16 MB of random-access memory.
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