23 Facts About Taligent

From 1993 to 1996, Taligent was seen as competing with Microsoft Cairo and NeXTSTEP, even though Taligent didn't ship a product until 1995 and Cairo never shipped at all.

In 1995, Apple and HP withdrew from the Taligent partnership, licensed its technology, and left it as a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM.

Taligent got permission to create yet another new microkernel named NuKernel, intended explicitly for a new Mac OS.

On March 2,1992, Taligent Inc was launched as the first product of the AIM alliance.

Taligent spent much of its first two years developing its operating system and simultaneously trying to find a market for it.

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On January 10,1993, The Wall Street Journal reported on the state of Taligent, saying the company and its platform had the broad optimistic support of Borland, WordPerfect, and Novell.

Taligent's object oriented portfolio was broadened with HP's compilers, DOMF, and intention to integrate TalOS and TalAE into HP-UX.

Also in March 1994 at the PC Forum conference, Taligent gave the first public demonstration of TalAE applications, to an impressed but hesitant reception.

Apple considered MacApp's lifespan to have "run its course" as the primary Macintosh SDK, while Taligent considered MacApp to be prerequisite experience for its own platform.

Taligent could mean the end of all applications as we know them.

Taligent was now considered to be a venerable competitor in the desktop operating system and enterprise object markets even without any product release, and being late.

Sun Microsystems held exploratory meetings with Taligent before deciding upon building out its object application framework OpenStep in partnership with NeXT as a "preemptive move against Taligent and [Microsoft's] Cairo".

However, Taligent reportedly remains so committed to boosting the industry's confidence in Apple's modernization that it is considering creating a way to hybridize TalOS applications for the nascent System 7, and Apple reportedly intends for the upcoming Power Macintosh to boot native TalOS as a next-generation alternative to System 7.

In June 1994, Taligent shipped its first deliverable, considered to be somewhat late for its three investors and approximately 100 developer companies.

Taligent intended to soon introduce the PowerOpen platform of PowerPC AIX, which would deliver TalAE for running a hopefully forthcoming class of applications, simultaneously alongside Macintosh Application Services for running legacy System 7 personal applications.

In May 1995, Taligent canceled the delayed release of its natively hosted TalOS, to focus on its TalAE application framework programming environment that would run on any modern operating system.

Taligent said that it wants CommonPoint to be the definitive software industry standard, like a local app store in every computer.

In September 1995, CEO Joe Guglielmi unexpectedly exited Taligent to become VP of Motorola, intensifying the industry's concerns.

Taligent provided all Unicode internationalization support for Sun's 1997 release of Java Development Kit 1.

Taligent was still leasing the same building from Apple, and JavaSoft was located across the street.

Taligent's frameworks are all coordinated much better than others I've seen.

Taligent's own published software was a set of development tools based on Java and JavaBeans, called WebRunner; and a groupware product based on Lotus Notes called Places for Project Teams.

Taligent licensed various technologies to Sun which are today part of Java, and others to Oracle Corporation and Netscape.