Taligent Inc, the Apple Computer Inc-IBM Corp joint venture that is busy turning Apple’s Pink object-oriented operating environment into a fully-fledged product, is well ahead of schedule in the development effort and now expects to start shipping the thing next year rather than in 1995, the Wall Street Journal reports: Taligent will be available for a range of different processors and will be able to run applications written for the Macintosh and for OS/2; the company now has 260 employees, up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over – Technically, it’s brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents, Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company, Kahn commented to the Journal, which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications.
