Object Technology International

Object Technology International
Successor	IBM
Founded	1988
Defunct	2003
Headquarters	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Products	VisualAge line Smalltalk and Java development tools
Parent	IBM

Object Technology International (OTI) was founded in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) in 1988 and acquired by IBM in 1996. OTI, in conjunction with the IBM development lab in Cary, NC, developed the VisualAge line Smalltalk and Java development tools[1] that eventually culminated in the open source Eclipse tool platform and integrated development environment (IDE).

OTI continued to operate with many of the same employees as it did when it was purchased by IBM until 2003-2004, when it was gradually disbanded as a distinct entity and its remaining employees absorbed into IBM.[2]

References

External links

Dave Thomas - Travels with Smalltalk: an account of the story of Smalltalk from one of the founders of OTI
Planet OTI Aggregator for former OTI employee blogs.

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[1] Roots of the IBM Ottawa Software Lab

[2] Developer Rick Denatale's professional memoir, including a history of the relationship between IBM and OTI Archived 2010-10-23 at the Wayback Machine