Editing Taligent (section)

=====Unbundling=====
In 1997, Taligent's mission as an IBM subsidiary was to unbundle the technology of CommonPoint, and to redistribute it across IBM's existing products or license it to other companies{{mdash}}all with a special overall focus on Java. On September 1, 1997, ''Dr. Dobb's Journal'' observed, "I guess it's easier to develop hot technology when the guys before you have already written most of it. Like inheriting from a rich uncle. And having another rich uncle to sell it for you doesn't hurt, either."<ref name="Phoenix in Cupertino"/>

The wider mass market debut of CommonPoint technology was in the form of VisualAge C++ 3.5 for Windows, with the bundling of the Compound Document Framework to handle OLE objects. In February 1997, the first comprehensive shipment of CommonPoint technology was its adoption into IBM's well-established VisualAge for C++ 4.0, which ''PC Magazine'' said was "unmatched" in "sheer breadth of features" because "Now, the best of the CommonPoint technology is being channeled into Open Class for VisualAge." This bundled SDK adaptation includes several CommonPoint frameworks: desktop (infrastructure for building unified OCX or OpenDoc components); web (called WebRunner, for making drag-and-drop compound documents for the web, and server CGIs); graphics for building 2D GUI apps; international text for Unicode and localization; filesystems; printing; and unit tests.<ref name="Previewing Taligent">{{cite magazine |magazine=PC Mag |date=February 4, 1997 |first=Gabrielle |last=Gagnon |title=VisualAge for C++ 4.0: Previewing Taligent |url={{google books |id=ZwHxz0UaB54C |page=206 |plainurl=yes}} |access-date=February 12, 2019}}</ref> Through 1997, Taligent was at the core of IBM's companywide shift to a Java-based middleware strategy.<ref name="IBM assumes Java mantle">{{cite magazine |magazine=InfoWorld |date=February 24, 1997 |first1=Tom |last1=Quinlan |first2=Ed |last2=Scannell |title=IBM assumes Java mantle |pages=1, 8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WzoEAAAAMBAJ&q=taligent&pg=PA8 |access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref> Taligent provided all Unicode internationalization support for Sun's 1997 release of [[Java Development Kit]] 1.1 through 1.1.4.<ref name="Phoenix in Cupertino"/><ref name="Getting Java Ready"/> Taligent was still leasing the same building from Apple, and JavaSoft was located across the street. But its parent IBM, and the related Lotus, were located on the east coast and were not fully aware of Taligent's plans and deliverables.<ref name="byte">{{Cite web|url=http://xent.com/FoRK-archive/winter96/0634.html|title=FoRK Archive: Taligent could still be a strategic IBM asset|website=xent.com}}</ref>{{better source needed |date=February 2019}}

WebRunner is a set of  [[Java (programming language)|Java]]- and [[JavaBeans]]-based development tools at $149.<ref name="webrunner home">{{cite web |title=Welcome to the VisualAge WebRunner Toolkit! |publisher=Taligent |url=http://www.taligent.com/Products/webrunner/webhome.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19971211222255/http://www.taligent.com/Products/webrunner/webhome.html |archive-date=December 11, 1997 |access-date=January 10, 2021}}</ref> In June 1997, Places for Project Teams was launched at $49 per user as a groupware GUI which hides the ugly interface of [[Lotus Notes]].<ref name="new Places">{{cite magazine |last=McNamera |first=Paul |date=June 2, 1997 |magazine=[[NetworkWorld]] |title=Taligent takes Notes, Domino to new 'Places' |url={{google books |id=NR0EAAAAMBAJ |page=45 |plainurl=yes}} |page=45 |via=[[Google Books]] |location=[[Cupertino]] |access-date=January 9, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Notes client for projects"/><ref name="clean places"/> Taligent had several products, licenses,<ref name="press coverage">{{cite web |title=press coverage |publisher=Taligent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970707143348/http://www.taligent.com/news/presscoverage.html |url-status=dead |url=http://www.taligent.com/news/presscoverage.html |archive-date=July 7, 1997 |access-date=January 10, 2021}}</ref> trademarks, and patents.<ref name="Taligent home">{{cite web |title=Taligent: software solutions made easy |publisher=Taligent |date=July 1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970328134525/http://taligent.com/ |url-status=dead |url=http://taligent.com/ |archive-date=March 28, 1997 |access-date=January 10, 2021}}</ref>

Apple canceled the unstable and unfinished Copland project in August 1996, which had already been presumptively renamed "Mac OS 8", again leaving only a System 7 legacy. Apple's own book ''Mac OS 8 Revealed'' (1996) had been the definitive final roadmap for Copland, naming the platform's competitors and allies, and yet its 336 pages contain no mention of Pink or Taligent.<ref name="Mac OS 8 Revealed">{{cite book |title=Mac OS 8 Revealed |first=Tony |last=Francis |isbn=9780201479553 |oclc=951335545 |publisher=Addison-Wesley, Apple Press |location=Reading, Mass. |date=1996 |url=https://archive.org/details/macos8revealed00fran |url-access=registration |via=[[Wayback Machine]] |access-date=January 10, 2021}}</ref> In late 1996, Apple was ever more desperately scrambling to find any operating system strategy whatsoever beyond System 7, even after having already planned its upcoming announcement of it to be made in December 1997.<ref name="Apple Confidential"/>{{rp|228–229}} The company had failed to deliver even a functional developer preview of Copland in two years; and it discarded the successful [[A/UX]] and [[PowerOpen]] platforms in 1995, and the new AIX-based [[Apple Network Server]] of 1996–1997. To build the future Mac OS, the company seriously explored licensing other third party OSes such as [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[Windows NT]], and TalOS.<ref name="Apple Confidential">{{cite book |last=Linzmayer |first=Owen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mXnw5tM8QRwC |title=Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company |publisher=No Starch Press |date=2004 |isbn=1-59327-010-0}}</ref>{{rp|228–229}}