Object Technology International: Difference between revisions

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Canadian company founded in 1988 to commercialise embedded SmallTalk system that had been developed by the Object Oriented Research Group at Carleton University, under the Object Utopia program that in addition to OTI, also begot the "Object People" and "Object Time" companies. OTI sold the system under the name ENVY/Smalltalk and while it failed to set the world alight, the source control system Orwell that OTI used did on the other hand generate a lot of interest and the company introduced it under the name ENVY/Developer, initially for their own SmallTalk product only but soon thereafter a version compatible with the Smalltalk products of Digitalk and a little later for other commercial SmallTalk variants.

ENVY/Developer was primarily sold as a solution to the problem of managing code generated by large groups of programmers, and it was successful enough to lead the company to discontinue their ENVY/Smalltalk product and focus on ENVY/Developer and developing new RAD tools and SmallTalk related utilities.

The company was bought by IBM in the mid-90's and the ENVY product line was integrated into the VisualAge Smalltalk Enterprise edition and later into the Visualage for Java development system. OTI was kept as an independent company though, and when IBM converted their internal programming tools from SmallTalk to Java, OTI was put in place as caretaker of what remained of IBM's SmallTalk based tools, including VA Java, VA Smalltalk and VA ME.

When VA Java was re-written in Java to become Eclipse, and VA ME & VA Smalltalk sold or licensed to third parties sometime after the turn of the century, what remained of OTI was integrated into the IBM Canada operation.

Known products

ENVY/Smalltalk
ENVY/Developer
ENVY/Manager (Later integrated into some versions of ENVY/Developer)
ENVY/C Development
ENVY/QA
ENVY/Replicator
ENVY/Embedded
VisualAge for Java
VisualAge Smalltalk
VisualAge Micro Edition

Personnel

Brian Barry (CTO, later CEO)

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-Canadian company founded in 1988 to commercialise the [[SmallTalk]] source control system '''Orwell''' that had been developed by the Object Oriented Research Group at Carleton University. OTI sold the system under the name '''ENVY/Developer''' and it was primarily sold as a solution to the problem of managing code generated by large groups of programmers.
+Canadian company founded in 1988 to commercialise embedded  [[SmallTalk]] system that had been developed by the Object Oriented Research Group at Carleton University, under the '''Object Utopia''' program that in addition to OTI, also begot the "Object People" and "Object Time" companies. OTI sold the system under the name '''ENVY/Smalltalk''' and while it failed to set the world alight, the source control system '''Orwell''' that OTI used did on the other hand generate a lot of interest and the company introduced it under the name '''ENVY/Developer''', initially for their own SmallTalk product only but soon thereafter a version compatible with the Smalltalk products of [[Digitalk]] and a little later for other commercial SmallTalk variants.
+ENVY/Developer was primarily sold as a solution to the problem of managing code generated by large groups of programmers, and it was successful enough to lead the company to discontinue their ENVY/Smalltalk product and focus on ENVY/Developer and developing new RAD tools and SmallTalk related utilities.
 The company was bought by [[IBM]] in the mid-90's and the ENVY product line was integrated into the [[VisualAge Smalltalk]] Enterprise edition and later into the [[Visualage for Java]] development system. OTI was kept as an independent company though, and when IBM converted their internal programming tools from SmallTalk to [[Java]], OTI was put in place as caretaker of what remained of IBM's SmallTalk based tools, including VA Java, VA Smalltalk and VA ME.
-When VA Java was re-written in Java, and VA ME & VA Smalltalk sold or licensed to third parties sometime after the turn of the century, what remained of OTI was integrated into the IBM Canada operation.
+When VA Java was re-written in Java to become [[Eclipse]], and VA ME & VA Smalltalk sold or licensed to third parties sometime after the turn of the century, what remained of OTI was integrated into the IBM Canada operation.
 ==Known products==
+* [[ENVY/Smalltalk]]
 * [[ENVY/Developer]]
 * [[ENVY/Manager]] (Later integrated into some versions of ENVY/Developer)