Boulder, CO Ð Systemhouse, the large Canadian integrator responsible for fashioning NeXTSTEP solutions at several corporate sites, opened an object-oriented technology research-and-development center in April called the Object Technology Center (OTC).
The center plans to offer "mentored" integration and application development at worldwide offices and corporate sites, access to a central object repository, and periodic white papers on advances in object-oriented technologies, with an emphasis on NeXTSTEP.
"Today, consultants and integrators come in, tell you your problem and write an app for it. There's no exchange of knowledge in either direction," said Vince Jordan, vice-president of Systemhouse's object technology group. "We want to teach people to fish rather than give them a fish."
The OTC will offer working partnerships to corporations and organizations seeking to build custom apps and better understand object-oriented software development. By working directly with corporate developers and giving them access to the object repository and state-of-the-art development methodologies, "we can bring technology intelligence back into a firm and stop all this outsourcing, which puts the cutting edge [of technology] outside the firm," said Ted Shelton, founder of Chicago-based IT Solutions and now the center's director.
In addition, the OTC is negotiating to work closely with the University of Colorado's Research Center and offer "two or three" yearly fellowships to bring students into the OTC's development teams. "We want to get students who will join corporations versed in NeXTSTEP," Shelton explained.
OTC: 303/449-2874.