On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 11:23 -0700, Richard Sargent wrote: > I heard an anecdote of a recent merger between two companies in which > one had > over 200 people supporting a Java application and the other had ~25 > people > supporting a Smalltalk application. The surprising result was that > the > Smalltalk application was selected for the merged company rather than > the > Java one. > > I would like to know which companies were involved, when this > occurred, and > what the precise details were. >
If it's the one I'm thinking of the details got mixed up in translation: GemStone (best known for their Smalltalk database) got bought by a division of VMware in 2010. However, I remember it as VMware wanting the Java piece, not the Smalltalk piece. In 2013 the previous owners of GemStone (i.e. the ones that sold it in 2010) acquired back the rights to the Smalltalk piece leaving VMware with the Java piece that was the driver behind the original deal. I have no first-hand or insider information, just what I remember being reported when those deals happened... > Thank you! > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Does-anyone-remem > ber-details-of-a-pro-Smalltalk-merger-circa-2013-tp4858715.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >
