Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!fauern!sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de!ulnie From: ulnie@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Ulf Niesar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: IBM and Digitalk's Smalltalk /VPM Keywords: IBM Digitalk Smalltalk Message-ID: <1990Nov20.193618.23602@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> Date: 20 Nov 90 19:36:18 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland Lines: 17 What I know about the connection between IBM and Smalltalk is that IBM licensed Smalltalk at least for PM (I am not sure about Windows). Usually this means that they plan to market at least parts of the product or want to extend it. As far as I was told (not much anyway)it seems likely that IBM is planning to come up with a software development tool. I didn`t hear anything if that will affect SAA. If this would be the case (but I really don't know it), that would be quite a big deal since SAA products are supposed to run on all SAA platforms starting with OS/2 and ending on a mainframe. So I guess we will have to speculate what it will be. I know that IBM started to experiment with Smalltalk for their own software development but I don't know if they dropped it or not. Anyway, this announcement seems to be a good argument that they continued and that they are planning something ... ->(?) My own point of view is that there is a good tool for GUI programming needed. Maybe IBM gives Smalltalk a try. But the interesting point is if it becomes SAA. In my opinion that would really be great. Ulf