Yet another industry club was announced yesterday: the Component Integration Laboratories brings together Apple Computer Inc, IBM Corp, Novell Inc, Oracle Systems Corp, Taligent Inc and WordPerfect Corp – and Xerox Corp is in there somewhere – to create a common framework for interoperability between applications on all desktop systems: according to Apple, the purpose is to establish, promote and certify specifications and reference implementations of key technologies that integrate information and media from many applications within a networked environment; the lab intends to develop certification processes for software products that conform to its specifications and documentation, as well as training for developers that want to use the technologies.
