Editing OpenDoc (section)

===Partnerships and adoption===
The development team realized in mid-1992 that an industry coalition was needed to promote the system, and created the Component Integration Laboratories (CI Labs) with [[IBM]] and [[WordPerfect]].{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} IBM introduced to OpenDoc, its already mature [[System Object Model]] (SOM) and Distributed SOM (DSOM) [[Library (computer science)|shared library]] systems from AIX and OS/2. DSOM allows live networked linking of data between different platforms, which OLE and COM did not have.<ref name="NWvendors"/> SOM became a major part of Apple's future efforts, in and out of OpenDoc.

In March 1995, many OpenDoc announcements came. CI Labs ownership included Apple, IBM, Novell, and SunSoft. IBM pre-announced at Object World Boston the future release of the OpenDoc OS/2 Developer Toolkit version 2, containing the complete API, and then the final release of OpenDoc 1.0 for OS/2 3.0. [[Taligent]]'s CommonPoint application framework has compound document features based on OpenDoc. [[Novell]] announced at the Brainshare conference, a plan to break up most or all of its products into OpenDoc components, beginning with [[WordPerfect]] applications and then its [[NetWare]] operating system. NetWare was intended to become a managed Compound Document Service for networks, to manage object links and compound document searching. Novell announced a plan for OpenDoc to become the basis for building [[UnixWare]] applications. It acknowledged that its operating systems lack a component architecture, and that Microsoft would never license the source code for OLE or COM, so Novell needs to support those also via OpenDoc. More than 20 more companies announced their products' support for OpenDoc, citing its technological superiority to Microsoft's OLE and COM, and its wide cross-platform support.<ref name="NWvendors">{{cite magazine | magazine=[[Network World]] | title=Vendors forge ahead with component application plans | date=March 27, 1995 | url={{Google books | id=ShgEAAAAMBAJ | plainurl=yes | pages=6,139}} | access-date=August 20, 2022}}</ref>

In 1996, OpenDoc was adopted by the [[Object Management Group]], in part due to SOM's use of [[Common Object Request Broker Architecture]] (CORBA), maintained by the OMG.

CI Labs never publicly released the source code, but licensed it to developers for feedback, testing, and debugging.