Object Technology International (OTI) was founded in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) in 1988 and acquired by IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 in 1996. OTI was the company behind the VisualAge

VisualAge

VisualAge was the name of a family of computer integrated development environments from IBM, which included support for multiple programming languages. VisualAge was first released in the 1980s and is still available in 2011...

 line Smalltalk

Smalltalk

Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis." It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist...

 and Java development tools that eventually culminated in the open source Eclipse tool platform and integrated development environment (IDE)

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

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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.

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.