Although the Taligent Inc environment is not due to ship until late 1994 or early 1995, the Apple Computer Inc-IBM Corp joint venture faces heightened competition from NeXT Computer Inc now that its options have shrunk to making a success of its NeXTstep environment, and a hot wind from Cairo – Microsoft Corp’s Cairo, that is, is blowing down their neck: accordingly, US PC Week reports, Taligent now plans to ship technology to developers later this year, starting with development tools for OS/2, AIX and Macintosh System 7, the idea being to get developers started with the new technology; the Taligent environment, derived from Apple’s Pink, has been designed from the ground up as an object-based system and includes a user interface, a development environment and operating system kernel.
