Hi Chris, On 21 Feb 2012, at 12:12, wysseier wrote:
> It is not up to me whether our CMSBOX is an important project in a general > context. But to answer your question: almost 500 customers in Switzerland > are using this Pharo-based application until now and for them, this > application and the underlying very stable technology with ongoing > development IS important. Besides, we at netstyle.ch created several > business critical web-based applications, from automatic inventory > management to a large CRM for a Swiss insurance broker. Although you > probably never heard of these applications I guess we are nevertheless an > important component of the Pharo eco system and we use it because we believe > it to be the right way of the ongoing development. > > Although there is always room for improvement, the migration to Pharo was > and is an important step within our company strategy. On this basis, we > built a company from scratch with more than 10 employees whereof five > software engineers are doing nothing else than working with the Pharo IDE. > It is due to the ongoing development of a small community that our personal > "success" became possible. Could not be more thankful for that! Keep the > work going! > > To now improve whatever needs to improved in your opinion, one should not > issue orders to or offend the community but to collaborate constructively on > suggestions. Honestly, this was not our strength within the past months too, > but we are willing to support this lively community as much as we can in the > future although we are not Wikipedia or similar. I am convinced that a > constructive and appreciative collaboration is the only way to improve > Pharo so please consider my words when writing your next message. > > Cheers, > > Chris Wysseier > Founder and CEO of netstyle.ch and cmsbox > > P.S: Also wanted to say hi to everybody as I am new on the list. Be aware > that I am not an *experienced* software engineer (let's say "anymore" ;) ) > and therefore will not be able to discuss on technical strategies or tasks. > But I would like to know what is going on and to show support and presence > to all of you. Thanks for sharing this information! This is good to hear. We hope to hear more from you and the netstyle Smaltalkers in the future. Sven
