Atego was a
software development
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corporation headquartered in the
United States and the
United Kingdom with subsidiaries in
France,
Germany, and
Italy. 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 "
merger mania" 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
Norwalk, Connecticut
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with engineering and support facilities in Norwalk and
San Diego, California.
TSP was established in July 1995, as a
United States subsidiary of the
French
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firm
Thomson-CSF, formed by merging the Thomson subsidiary
Alsys of San Diego with Must Software International of Norwalk. The staff in Norwalk continued to provide
client/server fourth-generation language (4GL) and
middleware products, while the ex-Alsys worked on high-performance
Ada programming language development environments and the TeleUSE family of
graphical user interface development tools.
Acquisition
In December, 1998, Aonix was acquired by
private equity firm
The Gores Group (then known as Gores Technology Group). Aonix owned the product lines
Nomad software
NOMAD is a relational database and fourth-generation language (4GL), originally developed in the 1970s by time-sharing vendor National CSS. While it is still in use today, its widest use was in the 1970s and 1980s. NOMAD supports both the relati ...
, Ultraquest and Select Solution Factory until two groups split in January 2003 in a management buy-out. The new company, based in
Boulder, Colorado
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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
Cheltenham
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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++
interactive development environment
An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools a ...
.
In 2011 it acquired the ApexAda
PTC ApexAda
/ref> family of Ada compilers from the Rational Software division of IBM.
PTC, Inc.
PTC Inc. (formerly Parametric Technology Corporation) is an American computer software and services company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The global technology company has over 6,000 employees across 80 offices in ...
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
Official WebsiteTetrabyte WebsiteAccounting Software
Software companies based in California
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Technology companies based in San Diego
Privately held companies based in California
Software companies of the United States
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