Editing Taligent (section)

====AIM alliance====
{{quote box |width=25% |align=right |In 1992, the earth shook: IBM and Apple clasped hands and pronounced themselves allies. From this union sprang Taligent ... developing nothing less than a universal operating system. |source=''MacWorld''<ref name="Taligent Rising">{{cite magazine |magazine=MacWorld |title=Taligent Rising |date=August 1994 |editor1-first=Tom |editor1-last=Moran |pages=34–35 |url=https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_9408_August_1994/page/n35 |access-date=February 10, 2019}}</ref>
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{{main|AIM alliance |Workplace OS |Kaleida Labs}}
On October 2, 1991, the historic AIM alliance was formed and announced by [[Apple Inc|Apple]], [[IBM]], and [[Motorola]]. It was conceived to cross-pollinate Apple's personal products and IBM's enterprise products, to better confront [[Microsoft]]'s monopoly, and to design a new grandly unified platform for the computing industry. This alliance spun off two partner corporations: [[Kaleida Labs]] to develop multimedia software, and Taligent Inc. to bring Pink to market sometime in the mid-90s.<ref name="Main Ally">{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |title=I.B.M. Now Apple's Main Ally |first=Andrew |last=Pollack |date=October 3, 1991 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/03/business/ibm-now-apple-s-main-ally.html |access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref><ref name="Apple Confidential"/>{{rp|69}}<ref name="Taligent Up & Running"/><ref name="software venture"/>

Pink was a massive draw for this alliance, where Apple had been initially approached by two different parts of IBM. One IBM group sought customers for its new [[IBM Power microprocessors|POWER CPU]] hardware, therefore discovering Pink and a new desire to port it to this hardware.<ref name="Apple Confidential"/>{{rp|69}}<ref name="Apple's First Stab"/> The other IBM group sought third party interest in its Grand Unifying Theory of Systems (GUTS) as the solution to various complexities and challenges in software development,<ref name="Inside Taligent Technology"/>{{rp|9}} which would soon result in [[Workplace OS]].<ref name="OWCPE book"/>{{rp|3–4}} In an April 12, 1991, demonstration of Pink and its architecture, IBM was profoundly impressed and its GUTS outline was immediately impacted.<ref name="OWCPE book"/>{{rp|4}}<ref name="Apple Confidential"/>{{rp|69}} By 1993, IBM's ambitious global roadmap would include the unification of the diverse world of computing by converting Pink to become one of many personalities of Workplace OS, and the ending of the need to write new major applications by instead making smaller additions to Pink's generalized frameworks.<ref name="Transforming Your Business">{{cite book |title=Transforming Your Business With Object Technology |publisher=IBM |type=Whitepaper |date=November 1993 |location=Austin, TX |url=https://archive.org/details/IBMTaligent/ |page=15 |access-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref>{{rp|14–15}}

Even before the signing of the alliance contract, the very existence of Pink was identified as a potential second-system threat if its revolutionary aura could prompt customers to delay their adoption of OS/2.<ref name="Main Ally"/>