Places for clients - Taligent Places for Project Teams workgroup software - Product Information - Brief Article

Software Magazine, March, 1997

Remember Taligent, the disbanded joint effort of IBM and Apple, and later Hewlett-Packard? Now a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM, sans almost everybody but the engineers, Taligent announced an "alternative Notes client" for Lotus' Domino Web application server called Places for Project Teams.

Places grew out of Taligent's ActiveX People, Places and Things concept, which set out to create a shared workspace for organizing project discussions and materials. People, Places and Things was built with ActiveX components. Places for Project Teams is built atop the full integrated Notes client, and utilizes a timeline metaphor for organizing data. "It provides a lot more information about people in the environment, and a more active space for people to communicate," says Mike Potel, Taligent CTO. Availability is slated for Q2/97.

IBM's Senior Vice President John M. Thompson says he doesn't consider Taligent's effort a separate client, but rather additional functionality built into the Notes client.