Editing Taligent (section)

==Legacy==
The founding lead engineer of Pink, Erich Ringewald, departed Apple in 1990 to become the lead software architect at [[Be Inc.]] and design the new [[BeOS]].<ref name="Be Newsletter, Vol 3">{{cite magazine |magazine=Be Newsletter |title=Be Newsletter |volume=3 |issue=8 |date=March 25, 1998 |url=https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/benewsletter/Issue3-12.html |access-date=February 1, 2019}}</ref> [[Mark Davis (Unicode)|Mark Davis]], who had previously cofounded the [[Unicode Consortium]], had at Apple co-written WorldScript, Macintosh Script Manager, and headed the localization of Macintosh to Arabic, Hebrew, and Japanese (KanjiTalk),<ref name="Creating global"/> was Taligent's Director of Core Technologies and architect of all its internationalization technology, and then became IBM's Chief Software Globalization Architect, moved to Google to work on internationalization and Unicode,<ref name="Phoenix in Cupertino"/> and now helps to choose the emojis for the world's smartphones.<ref name="Who Decides">{{cite web |title=Who Decides Which Emojis Get The Thumbs Up? |date=October 25, 2015 |publisher=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/25/451642332/who-decides-which-emojis-get-the-thumbs-up |author=NPR Staff |access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref> Ike Nassi had been VP of Development Tools at Apple, launched [[MkLinux]], served on the boards of Taligent and the OpenDoc Foundation, and worked on the [[Linksys iPhone]].<ref name="Ike Nassi CHM interview">{{cite interview |last=Nassi |first=Ike |author-link=Ike Nassi |interviewer=John Markoff |publisher=Computer History Museum |date=August 26, 2016 |type=Video |series=CHM Oral History Collection |id=102717191 |title=Nassi, Ike oral history |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102717191 |access-date=February 9, 2019}} [https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2018/10/102717190-05-01-acc.pdf Text transcript]</ref>

IBM harvested parts of CommonPoint to create the Open Class libraries for VisualAge for C++, and spawned an open-source project called [[International Components for Unicode]] from part of this effort.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}} Resulting from Taligent's work led by Mark Davis, IBM published all of the internationalization libraries that are in [[Java Development Kit]] 1.1 through 1.1.4 along with source code<ref name="Getting Java Ready"/><ref name="Phoenix in Cupertino"/><ref name="byte"/> which was ported to C++ and partially to C. Enhanced versions of some of these classes went into ICU for Java (ICU4J) and ICU for C (ICU4C).<ref name="Introduction to ICU"/> The JDK 1.1 received Taligent's JavaBeans Migration Assistant for ActiveX, to convert ActiveX into JavaBeans.<ref name="Phoenix in Cupertino"/> Davis's group became the Unicode group at the IBM Globalization Center of Competency in Cupertino.<ref name="Introduction to ICU">{{cite web |title=Introduction to ICU |publisher=ICU |url=http://userguide.icu-project.org/intro |access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Key Boost">{{cite magazine |magazine=ComputerWorld Hong Kong |location=Hong Kong |date=March 12, 1997 |first=Don |last=Tennant |title=Software internationalization gets key boost from Taligent |url=http://www.taligent.com/news/computerworld.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970707142101/http://www.taligent.com/news/computerworld.html |archive-date=July 7, 1997 |access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref>

Taligent's own published software was a set of development tools based on [[Java (programming language)|Java]] and [[JavaBeans]], called WebRunner; and a groupware product based on [[Lotus Notes]] called Places for Project Teams.<ref name="Notes client for projects">{{Cite magazine |url={{google books |id=3zsEAAAAMBAJ |page=6 |plainurl=yes}} |page=6 |title=Taligent releases Notes client for projects |first=Amy |last=Doan |access-date=January 9, 2021 |date=June 9, 1997 |magazine=[[InfoWorld]] |publisher=InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. |via=[[Google Books]] |postscript=screenshot}}</ref><ref name="clean places">{{Cite magazine |last=Marshall |first=Patrick |date=October 20, 1997 |title=Taligent provides clean places for workgroup talks |magazine=[[InfoWorld]] |url={{google books |id=XjwEAAAAMBAJ |page=133 |plainurl=yes}} |page=133 |access-date=January 9, 2021 |publisher=InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. |via=[[Google Books]] |postscript=screenshot}}</ref> Taligent licensed various technologies to [[Sun Microsystems|Sun]] which became an enduring part of Java, and others to [[Oracle Corporation]] and [[Netscape Communications Corporation|Netscape]]. HP released the Taligent C++ compiler technology (known within Taligent as "CompTech") as its "ANSI C++" compiler, [[HP aC++|aCC]].{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} HP also released some Taligent [[computer graphics|graphics]] libraries.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

In the 2010s, some of Apple's personnel and design concepts from Pink and [[List of Apple codenames#iPhone|Purple]] (the first iPhone's codename)<ref name="Apple's Phone Part 3"/><ref name="Project Purple"/> were blended into Google's [[Fuchsia (operating system)|Fuchsia]] operating system. Based on an object-oriented kernel and application frameworks, its [[open-source software|open-source code]] repository was launched in 2016 with the phrase "Pink + Purple == Fuchsia".<ref name="Mysterious Fuchsia"/>