Oracle Media Objects

Oracle Media Objects was a software development environment for creating interactive multi-media applications.

Plus was purchased by Spinnaker Software, who ported it to Windows NT and OS/2 Presentation Manager, becoming the first cross-platform hypermedia solution.

The initial release was important as it was a stop gap measure to allow Oracle to provide some support for Microsoft Windows which was rapidly growing in popularity in business.

For that purpose, a small subset of the Mac OS memory management commands (Handles) were ported to other platforms.

OMO's object types included both the standard controls available in other HyperCard clones of the time (buttons, text fields, draw and paint graphics), as well as more complex controls like a spreadsheet field, and non-control items that could be placed on a card but were invisible at runtime, like timers that could be scheduled to send messages after a specified time.

It was therefore sometimes included in sales pitches to potential clients by virtue of the fact that Windows was becoming increasingly popular on the desktop at large corporations.