Surprising from a "follow the herd" psyche amongst the corporate management and all institutions. They are wary of Smalltalk in general with very few competent resources available makes them more incapable to drive their personal agenda. Also for institutions, the insecure nature of Smalltalk, the lack of standardized monitoring tools et als is another factor that plays to opt for Java or .Net.
I suspect this maybe an on the cloud, self managed service which is assessed purely on its merits... if its true. On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Richard Sargent < richard.sarg...@gemtalksystems.com> 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. > > > Thank you! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Does-anyone-remember-details-of-a-pro-Smalltalk-merger-circa-2013-tp4858715.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >
