The Object People was a software company, based out of Ottawa Canada and with offices in Raleigh North Carolina, Southampton England, and Bonn Germany.
They did training, consulting, and custom development in Smalltalk and Java. They also made TOPLink, an object-relational mapping tool that has versions in Smalltalk, Java, and GemStone.
The company was founded by John Pugh, Wilf Lalonde, and Paul White. Other wiki-referenced people who work there include Alan Knight (me), Wayne Beaton, Ron Charron and Charlene Benson.
April 18, 2000, The Object People were acquired in two pieces. The services went to BEA, and the Top Link piece went to Web Gain. For more information, see www.objectpeople.com 
www.webgain.com and www.beasys.com .
See original on c2.com