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Canadian company based in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Originally founded in 1988 to commercialise an 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 gained some noteworthy customers including Tektronix, it did in general fail 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 place more emphasis on that than their ENVY/Smalltalk product (renamed ENVY/Embedded) and focus primarily on ENVY/Developer and developing new RAD tools and Smalltalk related utilities.

The company was bought by IBM in late 1995 or early 1996 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.

Products

ENVY/Smalltalk
ENVY/Developer
ENVY/Manager (Later integrated into some versions of ENVY/Developer)
ENVY/C Development
ENVY/QA
ENVY/Replicator
ENVY/Embedded
ENVY/Expert

Personnel

Dave Thomas (CEO)
Brian Barry (CTO, later CEO)
Adrian Cho

Links

Dave Thomas: You Can’t Do That With Smalltalk! - Can You? Lessons From The Past – Challenges For The Future.

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 Canadian company based in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Originally founded in 1988 to commercialise an 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 gained some noteworthy customers including Tektronix, it did in general fail 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.
+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 place more emphasis on that than their ENVY/Smalltalk product (renamed ENVY/Embedded) and focus primarily on ENVY/Developer and developing new RAD tools and SmallTalk related utilities.
+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 place more emphasis on that than their ENVY/Smalltalk product (renamed ENVY/Embedded) and focus primarily on ENVY/Developer and developing new RAD tools and Smalltalk related utilities.
-The company was bought by [[IBM]] in late 1995 or early 1996 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.
+The company was bought by [[IBM]] in late 1995 or early 1996 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.
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 *ENVY/Expert
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-*VisualAge Micro Edition
 ==Personnel==
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 * Dave Thomas: [http://www.slideshare.net/esug/you-cant-do-that-with-smalltalk You Can’t Do That With Smalltalk! - Can You?] Lessons From The Past – Challenges For The Future.
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+[[Category:Defunct companies]]