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title: "Object Technology International: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "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, that eventually culminated in the open source Eclipse tool platform and integrated development environment (IDE)."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-object-technology-international
type: Organization
wikidata: Q12195302
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Technology_International
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Object Technology International

> 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, that eventually culminated in the open source Eclipse tool platform and integrated development environment (IDE).

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: Canada
- Founded: 1988-01-01
- Dissolved: 2003-01-01
- Headquarters: Ottawa
- Status: closed

## Ownership

Parent: [IBM](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-ibm.md)

## Products

- VisualAge

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Object Technology International, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-object-technology-international#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12195302, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Technology_International

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