private industry computer software founded 1989 headquarters seattle washington u.s. key people ken case tim wood products mac os x software see products below website omnigroup.com the omni group is a company that develops software for the mac os x platform . the omni group was informally founded as a nextstep consulting company in 1989 by wil shipley who immediately brought on ken case and tim wood . the three incorporated together under the name omni development inc. in 1993 because the name omni group was taken by another seattle firm . omni initially produced custom database software for the nextstep platform for clients such as the william morris agency and mccaw cellular communications then cingular wireless ; now at & t inc. . during this period they also ported a number of games to nextstep then later to mac os x after apple acquired next in 1997 . around 2000 the company decided to start focusing on their own consumer applications for the mac and as of 2004 the vast majority of their revenue came from their consumer products . in 2003 ken case took over as the chief officer of omni and in march 2004 wil shipley left with another omni employee interface designer mike matas to form delicious monster . matas later left for apple . the omni group also administers several mailing lists related to mac os x and software development . they also provide several frameworks for cocoa software development under an open source license . omnigraffle and omnioutliner have won macworld editors choice awards . at the macintosh worldwide developers conference in 2001 omniweb 4.0 won two apple design awards best mac os x user experience and best new mac os x product . in 2002 omnigraffle 2.0 won two more apple design awards . contents 1 products 1.1 productivity 1.2 frameworks 1.3 games 2 references 3 external links products edit productivity edit omnidazzle omnidictionary omnidisksweeper omnigraffle omnigraphsketcher omnioutliner omniplan omniweb omnifocus omnipresence allows a folder sync via omnisync or webdav server . frameworks edit the omni group uses many frameworks in their applications 1 and releases them under an open source license . 2 most of the frameworks are dependent on the mac os x platform and require xcode 2.3 and thus tiger . omniappkit omnibase omnifoundation omnihtml omninetworking omni web framework games edit as users of a platform that was not targeted by commercial porting houses the omni group historically did source ports of games for nextstep openstep pro bono especially maintenance updates of id games . they continued to do so during the transition through rhapsody into os x catching the eye of the existing macintosh games industry in the process and were then contracted to port a number of games commercially . activision anthology remix alchemy deluxe aliens versus predator 2 big money deluxe doom doom ii hell on earth fallout fallout 2 freedom force giants citizen kabuto heavy metal f.a.k.k. incoming no one lives forever 2 a spy in h.a.r.m. s way quake quake ii quake iii arena soldier of fortune ii double helix references edit developer source code the omni source license a modification of the mit license external links edit the omni group mac observer omniweb wins two os x apple design awards retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the omni group & oldid 737201153 categories the omni groupmac software companiescompanies based in seattlecomputer companies of the united statescompanies established in 1989video game companies of the united statesvideo game development companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olfran ais norsk nynorsk edit links this page was last modified on 1 september 2016 at 09 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view