Taskon was a Norwegian IT

Information technology

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 enterprise which developed systems using object-oriented technology. The company also provided advisory and consultancy services, products, and training within the field of object-oriented systems development. Formed in 1986 by Trygve Reenskaug

Trygve Reenskaug

Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug is a Norwegian computer scientist and professor emeritus of the University of Oslo. He formulated the model-view-controller pattern for Graphic User Interface software design in 1979 while visiting the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center...

, Taskon's expertise was in the area of analysis, design, and implementation of component-based systems.

As one of the UML Partners

UML Partners

UML Partners was a consortium of system integrators and vendors convened in 1996 to specify the Unified Modeling Language . Initially the consortium was led by Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh of Rational Software...

, Taskon helped with the standardization of the Unified Modeling Language

Unified Modeling Language

Unified Modeling Language is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group...

 (UML).

The company's flagship product was OOram, a software package for the analysis and design of Object Oriented systems, with support for the role-modeling concept. In addition to providing support for the modeling of complex systems in a highly productive way — encouraging systematic use of object patterns, the product conformed to the UML standard the company helped develop.

Numerica-Taskon

Numerica was another IT company founded in 1986 by four Norwegian Institute of Technology

Norwegian Institute of Technology

The Norwegian Institute of Technology, known by its Norwegian abbrevation NTH was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 85 years, after which it was merged into the University of Trondheim as an independent...

 students, including Gunnar Nordseth and Tor Ivar Byrkjeland. The company's expertise included the development of Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 software applications, as well as UML modeling. It was one of the few preferred partners of Rational Rose in Norway.

Numerica encountered Taskon during a project for Gjensidige NOR

Gjensidige NOR

Gjensidige NOR was a Norwegian bank and insurance company that was in existence between 1999 and 2003. The company was created when the two savings banks Sparebanken NOR and Gjensidige were merged in 1999. In 2002 Norwegian savings banks were allowed to become public limited company and was...

, a Norwegian bank. The companies discovered the complementary nature of their technologies, and shortly afterward, they formed Numerica-Taskon (1999). The following were among the clientele of the new entity:

• ABB Group
• Veritas
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• Ericsson
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• Gjensidige
  Gjensidige
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• Norges Bank
• Norsk Hydro
  Norsk Hydro
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• Postens Godssenter
• Securitas
  Securitas
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• Tandberg Television
  Tandberg Television
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• Telenor
  Telenor
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• Thomson
  Thomson
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• Toyota

In 2000, a Swedish company named OptoSof AB bought Numerica-Taskon, WinHlp (1993), Mogul Media (1994) and Grape (1997). The result of this merger was Mogul.