Atego was a

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corporation headquartered in the

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and the

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with subsidiaries in

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, and

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. Formed from Interactive Development Environments, Inc. and Thomson Software Products, it was called Aonix from 1996 until 2010. It was acquired by PTC in 2014.

History

The company might be considered an example of the "

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" of the 1990s and beyond. Aonix was formed in November 1996 by merging two software development tools companies: Interactive Development Environments, a modelling, analysis and design tools developer, and Thomson Software Products (TSP). TSP was based in

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with engineering and support facilities in Norwalk and

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. TSP was established in July 1995, as a

subsidiary of the French firm

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, formed by merging the Thomson subsidiary

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of San Diego with Must Software International of Norwalk. The staff in Norwalk continued to provide client/server

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(4GL) and

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products, while the ex-Alsys worked on high-performance

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development environments and the TeleUSE family of

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development tools.

Acquisition

In December, 1998, Aonix was acquired by

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firm

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(then known as Gores Technology Group). Aonix owned the product lines

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, Ultraquest and Select Solution Factory until two groups split in January 2003 in a management buy-out. The new company, based in

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and still owned by Gores, was named Select Business Solutions. Aonix merged with real-time and embedded Java tools vendor NewMonics, of Tucson, Arizona in 2003, acquiring the PERC product line. In January 2010, Aonix and Artisan Software Tools (based in

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, UK) agreed to merge, forming a new company called Atego. The combined company was headquartered in San Diego. In March 2010 Atego acquired BlueRiver Software, the Germany-based maker of the X32 C/C++

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. In 2011 it acquired the ApexAdaPTC ApexAda
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division of IBM. PTC, Inc. announced on July 1, 2014, it acquired Atego, for approximately $50 million in cash.

Products

Product lines included ''AdaWorld'', ''Ameos'', ''Architecture Component Development'', ''ObjectAda (now PTC ObjectAda)'', ''PERC (now PTC Perc)'', ''RAVEN'', ''SmartKernel'', ''Software Through Pictures'', and ''TeleUSE (now PTC TeleUSE)''.

References

External links

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