The Object People was a software company, based out of Ottawa Canada and with offices in Raleigh North Carolina, Southampton England, and Bonn Germany.
They did training, consulting, and custom development in Smalltalk and Java. They also made TOPLink, an object-relational mapping tool that has versions in Smalltalk, Java, and Gemstone.
The company was founded by
JohnPugh,
WilfLalonde, and
PaulWhite. Other wiki-referenced people who work there include
AlanKnight (me),
WayneBeaton, Ron Charron and
CharleneBenson.
April 18, 2000, The Object People were acquired in two pieces. The services went to BEA, and the
TopLink piece went to
WebGain. For more information, see
http://www.objectpeople.com http://www.webgain.com and
http://www.beasys.com.
In 2002, Oracle acquired the
TopLink product and team from
WebGain.