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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 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.

Known 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)

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-Canadian company that started out as a [[Smalltalk]] consultancy 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]].
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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 [[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 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.
 ==Known products==