On May 6, 2011, at 12:44 AM, Alain rastoul wrote: > Nice vision. I want it now :) > I think smalltalk is the best choice for that - you know better than me of > course > However to make a living with it, it has to interface with other IT systems > and standards, so that developers can make an sell a part of the system.
Yes > Pharo has seaside-web on one end but may be something is missing with > relational databases. They are today the heart of business information > systems (I have to try dbx and glorp , odbc is not usable because of locks) Yes this is why we need a good FFI not locking. > Side note, I often wondered myself why object databases didn't catch? > Technical issues? Marketing? I talked with somebody that was and is in the business and she told me that RDB nicely killed all the start up on the 80/90e around OODB. Now we should try to get pharo running on gemstone one of these days :). > Btw, pharo has taken a good direction. Nice work. I'll try and see if I can > help in this field (databases) which is one of my skill Yes we are really interesting in that! > Cheers > Alain > > -- > Alain_rastoul > >
