Editing Taligent (section)

=====New leadership=====
By 1995, it was estimated that the three investors had spent more than $100 million on Taligent, Inc.,<ref name="CEO exits"/><ref name="Close Door"/> with its closure being predicted by sources of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' due to the decline of its parent companies and due to the inherent difficulty of anyone in the IT industry remaining committed beyond 18 months.<ref name="Close Door">{{cite news |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 18, 1995 |first=Julie |last=Pitta |title=IBM, Apple Will Close Door on Kaleida Labs : Software: A second joint venture, Taligent, will soon close, sources predict, in another sign of trouble for the companies' alliance. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-11-18-fi-4564-story.html |access-date=January 10, 2021}}</ref>

In September 1995, CEO Joe Guglielmi unexpectedly exited Taligent to become VP of Motorola, intensifying the industry's concerns. Dick Gurino, a general manager of a PC and software development division at IBM, was named the interim CEO and tasked with searching for a permanent CEO.<ref name="CEO exits">{{cite magazine |magazine=Computerworld |date=September 11, 1995 |first=Lisa |last=Picarille |title=CEO exits, Taligent future unclear |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2AQ3lqt_ZUC&q=taligent&pg=PA7 |access-date=February 3, 2019}}</ref> In October 1995, Gurino died of a heart attack while jogging, leaving the company without a CEO. On December 19, 1995, founding Taligent employee and Apple veteran Debbie Coutant was promoted to CEO.<ref name="executive team">{{cite web |title=executive team |publisher=Taligent |date=1997 |url=http://www.taligent.com/Company_Info/Bios.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970707143543/http://www.taligent.com/Company_Info/Bios.html |archive-date=July 7, 1997 |access-date=February 14, 2019}}</ref><ref name="IBM Subsidiary"/><ref name="Phoenix in Cupertino"/>

On that same day it received what would be its final CEO, Taligent Inc. also ended its partnership form. Apple and HP sold out their holdings in the company, making Taligent Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM alone. While dissolving the partnership, each of the three former partners expressed approval of Taligent's progress. In what they called overall enterprise-wide cost-cutting processes, Apple and HP wanted to simply maintain technology licenses, IBM wanted to use its own redundant marketing and support departments, and Taligent wanted to focus only on technology. In the process, nearly 200 of the 375 employees were laid off, leaving only engineering staff. Apple veteran and Taligent cofounding employee, Mike Potel, was promoted from VP of Technology to CTO, saying, "We're better protected inside the IBM world than we would be trying to duke it out as an independent company that has to pay its bills every day."<ref name="IBM Subsidiary">{{cite news |title=Taligent to Be IBM Subsidiary / Nearly 200 workers to lose their jobs |first=David |last=Einsetin |date=December 20, 1995 |newspaper=SF Chronicle |url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Taligent-to-Be-IBM-Subsidiary-Nearly-200-3017631.php |access-date=January 31, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Phoenix in Cupertino"/>

In November 1996, the final public demonstration of the complete native TalOS was given, titled "The Cutting Edge Scenario". While referring to the original codename of "Pink", Taligent had already officially abandoned the never-published native TalOS in favor of CommonPoint.<ref name="What does Pink sound like?"/>
{{blockquote |quote=TalOS was unique in its architecture. It was object oriented from the kernel up, and provided true pre-emptive multi-threaded multi-tasking. The end user experience revolved around a compound document-centric, multi-user networked, direct manipulation interface with infinite session undo. The principal interface theme was People, Places and Things. The networked interface represented remote users, as well as collaborative work spaces. In many ways it was more a graphic MOO (multi-user dimension-object oriented) than a traditional operating system.<ref name="What does Pink sound like?">{{cite web |title=What does Pink sound like? Designing the Audio Interface for the TalOS |first=Tom |last=Dougherty |publisher=International Conference on Auditory Display |date=November 4–6, 1996 |location=Palo Alto, CA |editor1-first=S. |editor1-last=Frysinger |editor2-first=G. |editor2-last=Kramer |url=http://www.icad.org/websiteV2.0/Conferences/ICAD96/proc96/dougherty.htm |access-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref> |author=Tom Dougherty, Taligent engineer
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