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Open Environment Corporation (OEC) was founded by John J. Donovan in 1992 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. OEC develops, markets and supports software that enables companies to create applications for distributed, client/server computing systems. OEC pioneered a three-tiered software architecture that allows customer to rapidly develop, deploy and manage software applications to access critical information quickly on an enterprise-wide basis.
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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, 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 under ticker OPEN.
On August 31, 1995 OEC bought Jarrah Technologies Pty. Limited in a stock-swap.
In 1996 OEC was bought out by Borland.
Products
OEC Toolkit is a set of client/server application development software. OEC sold and marketed this product jointly with IBM. 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.