Editing Taligent (section)

=====CommonPoint=====
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{{quote box |width=25% |align=right |text=No company is going to bet their project or job on a piece of software that is a 1.0 release. [Taligent has] another year or year and a half's worth of work ahead, because you only prove reliability from being out there.<ref name="Analysts wary"/> |source=Steve Jobs, 1995
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Taligent said that it wants CommonPoint to be the definitive software industry standard,<ref name="IEEE Software March 1995"/> like a local [[app store]] in every computer.<ref name="IBM's Workplace OS Explained"/> "Shake n bake" application development in four steps. Each [[Application software|app]] would have minimal package delivery size because customers already have most of the code in the form of the shared CommonPoint framework.<ref name="IBM to release"/> The CommonPoint frameworks are divided into three categories: Application, Domain, and Support.<ref name="IBM DSN 1995 Issue 7">{{cite magazine |magazine=Developer Support News |publisher=[[IBM]] |date=June 15, 1995 |issue=7 |volume=1995 |title=Developer Support News |url=http://public.dhe.ibm.com/rs6000/developer/library/dsnews/dsn5g.asc |access-date=April 2, 2019}}</ref>

On July 28, 1995, Taligent shipped its first final product, CommonPoint 1.1, after seven years in development as Pink and then TalAE. First released only for its reference platform of [[AIX]], it was initially priced at {{US$|1500|1995}} for only the runtime framework for users; or {{US$|5900|1995}} for the runtime framework and the software development kit, which further requires the {{US$|1800}} Cset++ compiler because TalDE is still scheduled for a later release. The runtime has an overhead of {{nowrap|18MB RAM}} for each machine<ref name="IBM to release">{{cite magazine |magazine=NetworkWorld |pages=35–36 |date=June 12, 1995 |first=John |last=Cox |title=IBM to release app framework on AIX |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_BIEAAAAMBAJ&q=taligent+commonpoint+aix&pg=PA36 |access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref> and {{nowrap|32 MB}} total system RAM is recommended.<ref name="Taligent first PEEK"/> Though essentially on schedule by the company's own PEEK projections last year,<ref name="Taligent first PEEK"/> some analysts considered it to be "too little, too late" especially compared to the maturely established NeXT platform.<ref name="Analysts wary">{{cite news |newspaper=SF Gate |date=June 6, 1995 |first=Tom |last=Abate |title=Analysts wary of late software by Taligent |url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Analysts-wary-of-late-software-by-Taligent-3144590.php |access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref> Several PEEK beta test sites and final release customers were very pleased with the platform, though disappointed in the marked lack of crossplatform presence on HP/UX, Mac OS, and Windows NT which strictly limited any adoption of CommonPoint even among enthusiasts.<ref name="Taligent show"/><ref name="IBM to release"/><ref name="IEEE Software March 1995"/> Hewlett-Packard wrote a beginner's guide for CommonPoint programmers to address its steep learning curve, saying that its survey showed that experienced C++ framework programmers needed at least three months to even approach their first application.<ref name="A Beginner's Guide"/> At its launch, ''InfoWorld'' told CEO Joe Guglielmi that "corporate users don't generally understand what CommonPoint is for" and have trouble differentiating CommonPoint and OpenDoc.<ref name="Tasks at hand">{{Cite magazine |magazine=[[InfoWorld]] |url={{google books |id=wjoEAAAAMBAJ |page=14 |plainurl=yes}} |page=14 |title=CommonPoint for AIX OS set for July release |first=Jason |last=Pontin |access-date=January 9, 2021 |date=June 5, 1995|publisher=InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> IBM reportedly conducted a "full-court press" to analyze and promote customers' awareness of CommonPoint, by training its direct sales and consulting staff, attending industry conferences to make CommonPoint presentations, and "talking with any third-party software vendor and systems integrator who will listen".<ref name="IBM to release"/>

The CommonPoint beta for OS/2 was released on December 15, 1995.<ref name="Taligent show">{{cite magazine |magazine=[[NetworkWorld]] |title=IBM to put on a Taligent show |first=John |last=Cox |date=January 8, 1996 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ow0EAAAAMBAJ&q=taligent&pg=PA31 |access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref>  This was coincidentally the same day as the [[Software release life cycle#Release to manufacturing (RTM)|gold master]] of the Workplace OS final beta, IBM's complementary cousin operating system to TalOS. The final beta of Workplace OS was released on January 5, 1996, in the form of OS/2 Warp Connect (PowerPC Edition) and then immediately discontinued without ever receiving a release of CommonPoint.

Meanwhile, at Apple, the one-year-old Copland reached a primitive and notoriously unstable developer preview release, and Apple's frustrated lack of operating system strategy still had not shipped anything physically capable of running any Taligent software.