It started with Smalltalk
OTI has been building tools for platform-independent OO development since 1988. Our ENVY® technology first brought collaborative software development, version management and shared repositories to Smalltalk. IBM is one of many companies to license ENVY, which continues to be the foundation of VisualAge® Smalltalk.



Next came Java™
Because of our expertise in OO technology, IBM turned to OTI for a next-generation development environment for Java. The result is VisualAge for Java, which continues to win awards for its innovative IDE and team support. InfoWorld has chosen VisualAge for Java as development tool of the year - year after year after year!



Then pervasive computing
OTI continues its development of IBM's VisualAge Micro Edition, a state-of-the-art platform for collaborative development of embedded applications and systems that are very lean. As the steady stream of press releases attests, VisualAge Micro Edition is already licensed to the leading microchip manufacturers, microkernel developers, and producers of handheld and consumer devices.



Now it's Eclipse
OTI has built the next generation IBM application development tools platform. Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. The real value comes from tool plug-ins that "teach" Eclipse how to work with things - java files, web content, graphics, video - almost anything you can imagine. Eclipse allows you to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's tools so seamlessly you won't know where one tool ends and another starts. The IBM supported version of this technology, WebSphere Studio Workbench, will be the core of the next generation of IBM and IBM Business Partner e-business tools optimized for the WebSphere software platform.



So what's next?
OTI continues to deliver object-oriented technology that scales across platforms, across teams and across project size. From a mainframe to a watch - we're closing in on that vision.