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==History==

Open ModelSphere has SILVERRUN PerfectO as its ancestor, a proprietary software developed by Computer Systems Advisers and released in 1996. PerfectO was part of the SILVERRUN suite of modeling tools, which is known by the modeling community since the 1990s<ref>The Decline And Fall of the American Programmer, Edward Yourdon, Yourdon Press, 1993, ISBN 0-13-191958-X, p 165154</ref>; PerfectO was used to support object-oriented modeling (limited to class modeling at that time) and object-relational modeling<ref>Informix Unleashed, Sams Publishing, 1997, Chapter 45 (Modeling Types in Informix-Universal Server, Jim Pradesh), ISBN 0-672-30650-6, pp 1117-1118</ref>.

In 1998, PerfectO was translated into Java to give SILVERRUN-JD (Java Designer). With the addition of relational data modeling, the product was renamed SILVERRUN ModelSphere and released in 2002. Later on, more features were added including support for business process modeling, conceptual data modeling and UML diagramming.