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- Subject: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
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- From: tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:44:43 GMT
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- Soliciting comments on the following:(long)
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- PC Week, August 17, 1992, pg 10:
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- "First Taligent OS Won't Run Existing Apps"
-
- BOSTON -- The first edition of Taligent's object-oriented
- operating system will not run existing OS/2, Macintosh and
- AIX applications, an IBM official confirmed last week.
-
- Initially, Taligent -- the joint venture announced last year
- as part of IBM and Apple Computer Inc.'s sweeping alliance
- -- will roll out a modular operating system and a set of
- class libraries and frameworks that will run programs
- designed for the native environment, said Richard Guarino,
- vice president of the Apple alliance for IBM in Somers, N.Y.
-
- "Taligent won't be a robust platform on day one," said
- Guarino, in a session at Apple's first Enterprise Computing
- Conference held here last week. "A year [after the operating
- system is shipped], Taligent will provide interoperability
- with AIX, System 7 and OS/2 applications, and it may be a
- converged operating environment by the late '90s."
-
- "Delaying compatibility may be a big mistake, analysts said.
- "This dooms the operating system to failure," said Nancy
- McSharry, an analyst in the Mountain View, Calif., office of
- market researcher International Data Corp. "There's not
- room for a proprietary operating system in the current
- environment."
-
- Taligent, in tandem with IBM and Apple, is working to round
- up a group of developers to write native Taligent
- applications that will enable customers to tap the system's
- advanced capabilities in its first release, which is due in
- 1994 or 1995, Guarino said.
-
- "It's our belief that the brain trusts in our universities
- are looking for something beyond Unix," Guarino said.
-
- Taligent's modular and object-oriented operating system will
- enable customers and developers to plug in components to
- customize their environment and avoid the often
- time-consuming and painful process of upgrading to whole new
- systems, he explained. In addition, common services such as
- database access, networking and graphics will be built into
- Taligent, streamlining the design process for develpers...
-
-
-
- So what's this say for the future or Taligent?? Will they be
- doomed if they don't ship Mac-AIX-OS/2 modules before 1996??
- Thats four years from now...roughly three after NT ships...
- or is Taligent's uniqueness going to be a strength that puts
- it in a new class and so does not need to compete with
- Microssoft el al??
-
- Jonathan/tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu
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