Object Design, Incorporated (often called ODI) was a software company founded by Daniel Weinreb in 1988 which developed and commercialized an object database called ObjectStore.
Object Design was founded by several former Symbolics employees, including Daniel Weinreb, and was based in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Its ObjectStore object-oriented database shipped in 1990.
In 1994, ODI was listed as No. 1 on Inc. magazine's list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.[1] A major early customer was Telstra, which used it to map toll-free telephone numbers to an end point close to the caller, for example a local taxi company or chain restaurant.[2] ODI's went public in 1996, and was listed on NASDAQ as ODIS.[3]
In 1999, ODI shipped its eXcelon XML