Object Design, Incorporated

Object Design
Industrysoftware
Founded1988
FounderDaniel Weinreb
HeadquartersBurlington, Massachusetts,
United States
ParentSymbolics

Object Design, Incorporated (often called ODI) was a software company founded by Daniel Weinreb in 1988 which developed and commercialized an object database called ObjectStore.

Object Design was founded by several former Symbolics employees, including Daniel Weinreb, and was based in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Its ObjectStore object-oriented database shipped in 1990.

In 1994, ODI was listed as No. 1 on Inc. magazine's list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.[1] A major early customer was Telstra, which used it to map toll-free telephone numbers to an end point close to the caller, for example a local taxi company or chain restaurant.[2] ODI's went public in 1996, and was listed on NASDAQ as ODIS.[3]

In 1999, ODI shipped its eXcelon XML application development environment, which it marketed as an "integration server".[4]

In January 2000, ODI was renamed eXcelon and focused its marketing on XML integration software.[4]

In 2002, ODI was acquired by Progress Software, which continued to develop it. In 2013, Progress Software sold the ObjectStore product line (among others) to Aurea Software, Inc., a newly formed operating subsidiary of ESW Capital, which in turn is the investment arm of Trilogy Enterprises. As part of the deal, ObjectStore moved to a separate operating subsidiary of ESW Capital.[5]

  1. ^ Leigh Buchanan, "The No.1 Companies From 1982 -- 2005: Where Are They Now?", Inc., 1 September 2006 [1]
  2. ^ Telstra Corp. Ltd. Selects ObjectStore For Nationwide Call Routing And Delivery Application., Burlington, MA: Business Wire, March 13, 1995, retrieved 2009-02-04
  3. ^ Find The Company, "Object Design Inc. (ODIS) Initial Public Offering" http://ipo.findthecompany.com/l/444/Object-Design-Inc
  4. ^ a b Eugene Grygo, "Object Design reinvents itself as eXcelon", InfoWorld 31 January 2000, p. 16
  5. ^ Progress Software divests ObjectStore, completes majority of planned divestitures., Yahoo, December 13, 2012, retrieved 2013-04-25