Developed in collaboration with Taligent and its Pink operating system imported from Apple via the AIM alliance, the ambitious Workplace OS was intended to improve software portability and maintenance costs by aggressively recruiting all operating system vendors to convert their products into Workplace OS personalities. It is the product of an exploratory research program in 1991 which yielded a design called the Grand Unifying Theory of Systems (GUTS), proposing to unify the world's systems as generalized personalities cohabitating concurrently upon a universally sophisticated platform of object-oriented frameworks upon one microkernel. Workplace OS is IBM's ultimate operating system prototype of the 1990s. OS/2 Warp Connect (PowerPC Edition) 1.0 / January 5, 1996 27 years ago ( ) Not to be confused with IBM's Workplace client for Lotus Notes.
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