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Canadian company founded in 1989 that started out as a [[Smalltalk]] consultancy with focus on training, later geared itself more towards custom and contract programming and did work on a large number of projects, including some work for [[IBM]] Smalltalk products . But although mostly a small part of their business, the company became best known for | Canadian company founded in 1989 that started out as a [[Smalltalk]] consultancy with focus on training, later geared itself more towards custom and contract programming and did work on a large number of projects, including some work for [[IBM]] Smalltalk products . But although mostly a small part of their business, the company became best known for TOPLink, a relational database persistence layer for [[Smalltalk]] that later became a hot product after it was ported to [[Java]]. | ||
TOP was originally based in Ottawa but later gained branch offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Southampton in England; Bonn, Germany and in Istanbul, Turkey. The company was split up into a development tools business and consultancy business in 2000 with the development tools being sold to "WebGain" and the consultancy business being acquired by a company called BEA (not that BEA though). [[Oracle]] later acquired both the development tools and the consultancy operation. | TOP was originally based in Ottawa but later gained branch offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Southampton in England; Bonn, Germany and in Istanbul, Turkey. The company was split up into a development tools business and consultancy business in 2000 with the development tools being sold to "WebGain" and the consultancy business being acquired by a company called BEA (not ''that BEA'' though). [[Oracle]] later acquired both the development tools and the consultancy operation. | ||
== | ==Products== | ||
* | *TOPLink - Database connection/persistence classes for [[Smalltalk]] and [[Java]] - Commercial - Discontinued | ||
==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
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* Donald Smith (TOPLink for Java product manager) | * Donald Smith (TOPLink for Java product manager) | ||
* [[Boris G. Chr. Shingarov]] (TOPLink developer) | * [[Boris G. Chr. Shingarov]] (TOPLink developer) | ||
* | *Alan Knight (TOPLink, sundry smalltalk products) | ||
* Wayne Beaton | * Wayne Beaton | ||
* Ron Charron | * Ron Charron | ||
* Charlene Benson (TOPLink developer) | * Charlene Benson (TOPLink developer) | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:06, 8 April 2018
Canadian company founded in 1989 that started out as a Smalltalk consultancy with focus on training, later geared itself more towards custom and contract programming and did work on a large number of projects, including some work for IBM Smalltalk products . But although mostly a small part of their business, the company became best known for TOPLink, a relational database persistence layer for Smalltalk that later became a hot product after it was ported to Java.
TOP was originally based in Ottawa but later gained branch offices in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA; Southampton in England; Bonn, Germany and in Istanbul, Turkey. The company was split up into a development tools business and consultancy business in 2000 with the development tools being sold to "WebGain" and the consultancy business being acquired by a company called BEA (not that BEA though). Oracle later acquired both the development tools and the consultancy operation.
Products
- TOPLink - Database connection/persistence classes for Smalltalk and Java - Commercial - Discontinued
Personnel
- John Pugh (Founder)
- Wilf LaLonde (Founder)
- Paul White (Founder)
- Donald Smith (TOPLink for Java product manager)
- Boris G. Chr. Shingarov (TOPLink developer)
- Alan Knight (TOPLink, sundry smalltalk products)
- Wayne Beaton
- Ron Charron
- Charlene Benson (TOPLink developer)