Planet OTI

I discovered that a Planet OTI web site exists which is basically an aggregation of blog feeds from a handful of ex-OTI’ers. My guess is that Patrick Mueller was the wizard behind the curtain who brought this site to life. The site is being powered by Planet software.

OTI, stands for Object Technology Incorporated. It was a small software development company (approximately 300 people) that at one time spanned roughly five countries: Canada, United States, Switzerland, Australia, and the Netherlands. The company began it’s life by crafting Integrated Developer Environments (IDEs) for the SmallTalk programming language. Eventually it switched to the Java programming language and was later bought out by IBM and assimilated. OTI’s greatest claim to fame is probably the J9 technology which is now the IBM’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) of choice.

While OTI no longer exists, it is nice being able to catch up on the activities of some of the people that I used to work with.

2 Comments to Planet OTI

1. 

   Hey Brooke. What happened to the hair?

   Welcome to the planet! Let me know if you know of other ex-OTIers.
Patrick Mueller on December 21st, 2006
2. 

   Yeah, it happened in stages. I just kept cutting it shorter and shorter until it I cleaned myself up so-to-speak. Actually, it was already starting at our last technical conference (so three to four years ago).

   Here are a few other ex-OTI’ers which are not part of the Planet: Brett Hackleman, Faust (although he hasn’t posted in ages), Mike Hambleton, and Kerri Hamberg.

   Thanks for adding me to the Planet!
Brooke Kuhlmann on December 22nd, 2006

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