 Kaleida was to create an object-oriented, cross-platform multimedia scripting language which would enable developers to create entirely new kinds of applications that would harness the power of the platform.IBM provided affinity between Workplace OS and Taligent, replacing Taligent's microkernel with the IBM Microkernel and adopting Taligent's CommonPoint application framework for Workplace OS, OS/2, and AIX.It was thought that the CISC microprocessor processor design, including the mainstream Intel products, were an evolutionary dead end, and that since RISC was the future, the next few years were a period of great opportunity.