that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . april 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message open environment corporation oec industry technology outsourcing services business consulting founded 1992 headquarters cambridge ma usa website www.borland.com open environment corporation oec was founded by john j. donovan 1 in 1992 in cambridge massachusetts 2 usa . oec develops markets and supports software that enables companies to create applications for distributed client server computing systems . oec pioneered a three tiered 3 software architecture that allows customer to rapidly develop deploy and manage software applications to access critical information quickly on an enterprise wide basis . 4 oec was bought out by borland in 1996 . history edit in 1992 open environment corporation was founded in cambridge massachusetts usa by john j. donovan former chairman 5 pioneering three tiered architecture . it was initially founded as a division of cambridge technology group and then spun out in 1993 . on february 10 1995 oec completed its initial public offering on nasdaq 6 7 under ticker open . 8 on august 31 1995 oec bought jarrah technologies pty. limited in a stock swap . 6 in 1996 oec was bought out by borland . 9 products edit oec toolkit 10 is a set of client server application development software . oec sold and marketed this product jointly with ibm . 10 the product which eventually would become known as entera was the first middleware product sold as a best of breed application server platform and pioneered the three tiered client server development model . 11 notes edit the business of software what every manager programmer and entrepreneur ... by michael a. cusumano a 1 2 3 approach to client server apps network world august 01 1992 toolkit guards client server security info world september 23 1993 open environment corporation announces product name change all business march 21 1995 borland to acquire open environment corporation ; together to offer multi tier scalable client server and intranet solutions . business wire may 13 1996 a b open environment corporation annual report 1995 open environment corporation files initial public offering of 2 750 000 shares of common stock . business wire april 13 1995 fitzgerald communications partners with open environment corporation and visix software prnewswire may 20 1996 borland to acquire open environment corporation business wire may 13 1996 a b client server applications network world volume 10 number 39 entera retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title open environment corporation & oldid 743978802 categories software companies based in massachusettscompanies based in massachusettshidden categories articles with a promotional tone from april 2010all articles with a promotional tone 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 add links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 10 49 . 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