German company Object International Software GmbH, founded in 1994, has developed and released a CASE tool
Together around 1997, it was referenced in a 1997' book by
Peter Coad "Java design: building better apps and applets" and a copy of the
Together/J Whiteboard Edition was included in an attached CD to a second edition (1999) of the book. The product received several awards, and in 1999 a separate American company TogetherSoft LLC was created. At the time there were 3 companies, a head company TogetherSoft Corporation, one American branch and TogetherSoft GmbH in Germany to operate in Europe. Earlier versions of the Together products were completely proprietary self-contained applications written in Java. in November 2001
Borland and TogetherSoft formed a partnership called Board of Stewards, and
Together was rewritten as a plugin for Eclipse which was released in late 2002. In October 2002 it was announced that TogetherSoft will be sold to Borland Group for approximately $210 million, which happened in 2003. In February 2003 Borland officials announced that a Borland Together Edition for JBuilder will be launched to be a part of Borland Enterprise Studio 5 for Java, and will replace Rational Rose. The development centres of TogetherSoft since middle of 1990s were located in
Saint-Petersburg and (after 1998) in
Prague, and after 2003 they were mainly responsible for further development and integration of Together with JBuilder. Borland bought both facilities in Prague and in Saint-Petersburg and promised to add 80 sales staff to approximately 250 sales people and sales engineers. Later several developers from ex-TogetherSoft founded a company
JetBrains. As a result of the acquisition, in January 2003 TogetherSoft' CEO/president
Peter Coad became senior vice president and chief strategist but he left Borland before the end of 2003 and turned his attention to interests outside of the software development field. Early versions of TogetherSoft Together were called
Together/J, it survived at least to version 3 (referred also as TJ3) in 2000 and supported MS Windows 2000 and RedHat Linux 6.0 with Sun JDK 1.2. Reviewers were noticing a TJ3's unique model-code synchronisation capability and support for Java, C++, and Objective Cobol. After acquisition of Borland at least from version 6.0.1 the option based on
Eclipse appeared (a Together Eclipse Edition). The installation allows installing Together using an existing Eclipse installation. Under Borland' rule the product line was sold in three levels of functionality: Together Developer, Together Designer, and Together Architect; however, since 2007, Together has been unified into a single product. Free (trial) versions 2.1 and 2.2 of the product were distributed by TogetherSoft in 1998 as Together/J and Together/C++ 2.1, they were called Whiteboard Edition. In 2004 Borland also distributed a
Together Designer Community Edition for free == Software description ==