Open Environment Corporation (OEC) was founded by

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in 1992 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. OEC develops 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.

History

In 1992, Open Environment Corporation was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) by

, former chairman. It was initially founded as a division of

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, and then spun-out in 1992. On February 10, 1995 OEC completed its initial public offering on

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Open Environment Corporation Annual Report 1995 under ticker OPEN. On August 31, 1995 OEC bought Jarrah Technologies Pty. Limited in a stock-swap. In 1996 OEC was bought out by

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Products

OEC ToolkitClient/Server Applications, ''Network World'', Volume 10, Number 39 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, and was the first middleware product sold as a best-of-breed application server platform. Entera

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