Hi Norbert, I would say 'finally'. This is great news and a good initiative. This will certainly help move Pharo forward. I wish you all the best.
Sven > On 17 Jun 2020, at 10:34, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote: > > Dear community, > > we are very proud to announce the availability of PharoPro, a company that > offers professional support for the pharo platform. Our mission is to enable > people and companies to secure their business when building products with > pharo. > > We have been tinkering with the idea creating it for a long time. We talked > to a lot of people, especially at last ESUG in cologne and finally decided to > do it. So at the end of last year we founded the company PharoPro. Obstacles > (one being covid-19) kept us from make it public until today. > > In close relationship with the pharo consortium our mission is to extend the > market opportunities for pharo. > Although PharoPro is new and still small we want to show our commitment to > the consortium and the community from the start. We decided therefor that > PharoPro will join the pharo consortium as platinum member. > > Our plans apart from support contracts is to have an LTS (long term support) > version of pharo, create a professional pharo ecosystem with libraries and > frameworks and to help out building the infrastructure pharo needs. > > We are still shaping up. We want to know your requirements and needs that > help us deciding what are the most needed things. So you might visit > > http://pharo-pro.com > > and then come talk to us. > > Best regards and health, > > Norbert > PharoPro GmbH -- Sven Van Caekenberghe Proudly supporting Pharo http://pharo.org http://association.pharo.org http://consortium.pharo.org
