IBM Corp also confirmed that it is absorbing Taligent Inc, with about half of the 400 people at the company losing their jobs. Taligent will be renamed the Taligent Object Technology Center, continuing to operate from its base in Cupertino, where it will continue to develop Taligent technologies and integrate them into IBM’s cross-system products. IBM will assume responsibility for marketing and distribution of all future Taligent products, but there is no word on whether the investments of Apple Computer Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co in Taligent are lost – presumably they are deemed to be, though the two will retain licensing rights to Taligent technologies. IBM wants Taligent to integrate its Commonpoint environment with its own VisualAge C++, System Object Model, Distributed SOM, and OpenDoc, and the centre will also try to ensure that Taligent technologies are fully compliant with industry standards. Tal igent’s first product, CommonPoint for AIX set of more than 100 ob ject-oriented frameworks, shipped in July, CommonPoint for OS/2 is now available, and Apple plans to deliver a CommonPoint for Mac OS.
