Open Environment Corporation

Open Environment Corporation (OEC)
Industry Technology, Outsourcing Services, Business Consulting
Founded 1992
Headquarters Cambridge, MA, USA
Website www.borland.com

Open Environment Corporation (OEC) was founded by John J. Donovan[1] in 1992 in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[2] USA. OEC develops, markets and supports software that enables companies to create applications for distributed, client/server computing systems. OEC pioneered a three-tiered[3] software architecture that allows customer to rapidly develop, deploy and manage software applications to access critical information quickly on an enterprise-wide basis.[4]

OEC was bought out by Borland in 1996.

History

In 1992, Open Environment Corporation was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) by John J. Donovan, former chairman,[5] pioneering three-tiered architecture. It was initially founded as a division of Cambridge Technology Group, and then spun-out in 1993.

On February 10, 1995 OEC completed its initial public offering on NASDAQ[6][7] under ticker OPEN.[8]

On August 31, 1995 OEC bought Jarrah Technologies Pty. Limited in a stock-swap.[6]

In 1996 OEC was bought out by Borland.[9]

Products

OEC Toolkit[10] is a set of client/server application development software. OEC sold and marketed this product jointly with IBM.[10] The product, which eventually would become known as Entera, was the first middleware product sold as a best-of-breed application server platform and pioneered the three-tiered client/server development model.[11]

Notes

  1. ↑ The business of software: what every manager, programmer, and entrepreneur ..., by Michael A. Cusumano
  2. ↑ A 1-2-3 approach to client/server apps, Network World, August 01, 1992
  3. ↑ Toolkit guards client/server security,Info World , September 23, 1993
  4. ↑ Open Environment Corporation Announces Product Name Change,All Business,March 21, 1995
  5. ↑ BORLAND TO ACQUIRE OPEN ENVIRONMENT CORPORATION; Together to Offer Multi-Tier, Scalable Client/Server and Intranet Solutions., BUSINESS WIRE, May 13, 1996
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Open Environment Corporation Annual Report 1995
  7. ↑ Open Environment Corporation files initial public offering of 2,750,000 shares of common stock.,Business Wire, April 13, 1995
  8. ↑ FITZGERALD COMMUNICATIONS PARTNERS WITH OPEN ENVIRONMENT CORPORATION AND VISIX SOFTWARE, PRNewswire, May 20, 1996
  9. ↑ Borland to Acquire Open Environment Corporation Business Wire, May 13, 1996
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Client/Server Applications, Network World, Volume 10, Number 39
  11. ↑ Entera