TALIGENT ANNOUNCES CERTIFICATION AND BRANDING PROGRAM FOR APPLICATION
SYSTEM

New Product Identity to Provide Developers, OEMs and End-Users With a
Common Foundation for Taligent Products

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- November 14, 1994 -- Moving forward in its mission to
deliver an object-oriented programming standard, Taligent, Inc. today
announced a certification and branding program for its application system,
here at COMDEX/Fall'94.

As part of the announcement, the company unveiled a new product name and
logo for the system. Formerly known as the Taligent Application
Environment (or Tal), the product was officially named the CommonPoint
application system.

"We wanted the product name to connote the fundamental promise of the
Taligent solution -- a common foundation for next generation applications;
a common platform for distributed computing; and a common user environment
for people to work together," said Joe Guglielmi, Taligent chairman and
CEO. "With CommonPoint we believe we've succeeded in choosing a name that
appropriately represents this vision. And through the execution of our
branding and certification program, we'll be able to ensure a consistent
set of object-oriented APIs are deployed across leading hardware and
operating system architectures. This will provide developers and users
with a common point for a new generation of computing."

The announcement of the CommonPoint branding and certification program
accompanies Taligent's debut as a COMDEX exhibitor and the demonstration
of the first CommonPoint application prototypes in the company's booth
#L482.

Certification and Branding Program

Taligent and its investors, Apple Computer, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company
and IBM Corporation, share a common goal of creating an object-oriented
programming standard for the industry. The certification and branding
program announced today is intended to provide software developers and
end-users with confidence that applications developed for the CommonPoint
system will be compatible across implementations on leading 32-bit
operating systems such as AIX, OS/2 and HP-UX.

Taligent will license the CommonPoint name for use with certified
implementations of the product beginning with the 1.0 version, which is
currently planned for delivery in 1995. To achieve certification, each
implementation must pass a verification suite including a depth test, that
will check the base functionality and quality of the core set of
frameworks, and a breadth test that will search for the existence of all
public object classes and member functions.

Taligent plans to extend the program in the future to include certification
of OEM implementations of the CommonPoint system on other operating system
platforms, as well as ISV applications written for the object-oriented
system.

In addition, Taligent intends to make its APIs and the test suites
available to OEMs and standards bodies. In January 1994, Taligent
announced plans to submit its APIs to industry standards associations such
as X/Open Company Ltd. and the Object Management Group (OMG) to ensure
broad acceptance of the CommonPointframeworks and make its testing-based
certification program available to third parties.

As part of its worldwide branding strategy, Taligent also unveiled a visual
identity for the CommonPoint system. The logo features a multi-colored
hand pointing the way to the future. Through use of the CommonPoint logo,
Taligent intends to create a market identity for its products, and make
the logo available for use by application and system vendors that support
the platform.

The first public showing of the CommonPoint logo occurs today in Taligent's
booth at COMDEX.

Taligent, Inc. is developing a new application system based on
object-oriented technology, which will provide the foundation for a new
generation of distributed workgroup and enterprise applications and
software components. Established in March 1992, Taligent is an independent
software company, owned by Apple Computer, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company
and IBM Corporation. Taligent, along with its investors, will license,
market and support its software products worldwide.

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