Compared with IBM Corp’s gung-ho pronouncements, Apple Computer Inc remained remarkably reticent about its plans to exploit Taligent Inc’s operating system technology. David Levy, Apple UK’s desktop sales manager, put his company’s attitude in perspective last week when he said of Taligent: they have some quite nice pieces of code, though some of them are looking quite dated now. Levy says that there is no commitment within Apple do anything with Taligent’s efforts, and gave the impression that Apple had a surfeit of internally-developed object-type technologies from which it can choose. Taligent’s goals he says, have apparently changed to the point where its software is a rapid application development.
