Kaleida
Kaleida Labs was a company founded by IBM and Apple Computer in 1991 as part of their AIM alliance. The company was to create a new cross-platform multimedia programming language called ScriptX which was to be a way for developers to harness the power of the AIM alliance's new line of PowerPC desktop computers. Its initial charter was also to work on set-top box hardware and software. Kaleida was formed at the same time as Taligent, another joint venture intended to create a new operating system for the computers.
ScriptX shipped in 1994 for Windows 3.1 and for Apple's System 7. Versions had been announced for OS/2 and the new PReP line of computers, but were never released. It found few customers; only one known product ever shipped that was created with ScriptX – the CD ROM version of the Swedish National Encyclopedia, developed by Linné Data of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Kaleida was closed down in 1995. At the time, Apple apparently offered jobs to about two-thirds of the staff.