The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Component Integration Laboratories

    (CIL) An effort to create a common framework for
   interoperability between application programs on desktop
   platforms, formed by Apple Computer, Inc., IBM,
   Novell, Oracle, Taligent, WordPerfect and Xerox.

   [When?  What happened?]

   (1994-10-24)