Object Technology International

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.
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.
Known products
- 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)