Taligent

Taligent was an American corporation, founded as a joint venture, between Apple Computer, Inc., IBM Corporation, and later, Hewlett-Packard, in March 1992.

The founding intention was take advanced, object-oriented software technology, developed as part of Apple's ill-fated "Pink" team, that was ostensibly developing a replacement for the legacy Mac OS, and bring it to a wider market.

Initial Product

The company initially sought to release a new operating system (Taligent Object System/TalOS), and associated application development environment (Taligent Application Environment/TalAE), that would have been based on a brand-new, proprietary microkernel, named Opus.

To date, no copies of this have surfaced.

ToDo - pivot to Mach, relationship to WorkPlace OS

CommonPoint

ToDo - Relationship to IBM VisualAge, Open Class Libraries, OpenDoc, HP compilers/ABI, products for AIX, and OS/2, DCE, documentation, PinkMake

Taligent Places for Project Teams

One of the few mass-market products, that was shipped, by Taligent, was "Places for Project Teams". This was a companion application, to Lotus Notes, for Windows, developed using Delphi, and ActiveX/OLE components (as opposed to the company's own, proprietary framework technology), that would have been sold, for a relatively-low price of $49 per-user (or, $390, for a pack of 10 licenses).

A 30-day trial copy of version 1.0, for Windows was recovered, from the WayBack Machine, and republished, as an Internet Archive artefact, recently. This is confirmed to run, on Windows Server 2003, and Windows NT 4.0, with a 4.x-series version of Lotus Notes.