----- Original Message ----- | From: "Casimiro de Almeida Barreto" <casimiro.barr...@gmail.com> | To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr | Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 12:28:49 PM | Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN] GemStone/S product and team move to a dedicated company | | On 03-05-2013 16:22, Dale Henrichs wrote: | > If you haven't already heard, the GemStone/S team is becoming an | > independent company after 3 years as part of VMware. The entire | > engineering team is moving to GemTalk Systems[1]. | > | > GemTalk Systems is completely focused on Smalltalk, GemStone/S and allied | > initiatives. | > | > I've published a blog post[2] with my take on the acquisition (short answer | > is "excited!"), if you have any additional questions, feel free to contact | > me. | | Focusing entirely in smalltalk is good news. Now comes the important | thing: how to make GemTalk popular and profitable. The bottom line is | having as many people working with it as possible. So, a certain focus | in schools/universities is unavoidable.
Casimiro, Agreed ... in the last year VMware sponsored work with Hasso-Plattner Institute for MagLev. I expect that GemTalk will continue to follow that lead as it has been a very productive relationship. Dale
