Has anybody tried to use the Taligent Application System?

I have been reading the book they put out ("Inside Taligent
Technology").  If even half of what they say is true, this will be a
phenomenal development system.

IBM released it for OS/2 in December, but doesn't seem to be promoting
it in any way.  And I haven't heard anybody talking about it here.  Are
they serious about bringing this technology to market?  Or are they
just going to let it wither on the vine?

At three grand, it is expensive, but considering that you get a
complete GUI builder, several extensible browsers and debuggers, an
enormous set of libraries (they say 1900 classes with 27,000 member
functions) covering vitually everything AND an object-oriented database
that includes a nifty source control mechanism, I think there is some
real value here.  None of the Visual Age products provide even close to
this kind of functionality.

There are some redundancies with Visual Age C++ and OpenDoc (though
NOT conflicts, as I understand it).  Apparently just the usual Brownian
motion that passes for strategic planning inside IBM.  So what gives? 
Anybody know anything?

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