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From: ulnie@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Ulf Niesar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: IBM and Digitalk's Smalltalk /VPM
Keywords: Smalltalk
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.174936.16826@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 21 Nov 90 17:49:36 GMT
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Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
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Today I received a newsletter by Digitalk. In this newsletter they publish the
IBM announcement concerning Smalltalk. I think that this may be of comno
interest. However, here it is:

** start of press release **

White Plains, NY, October 15 ... IBM today announced a development and license
agreement with Digitalk, Inc., developers of the Smalltalk/V line of object-
oriented programming environments.

IBM has licensed Digitalk`s Operating System/2 (OS/2) implementation of
Smalltalk/V and future Digitalk offerings for prototyping and product 
development. 

In addition, IBM and Digitalk will enhance Digitalk's products to meet 
evolving customer requirements for application development that complies
with Systems Application Architecture (SAA), IBM's strategic platform for
common features and functions across different hardware platforms.

"This agreement with Digitalk allows IBM to accelerate its use of object-
oriented technology," said Earl Wheeler, IBM Senior Vice-President and
General Manager, Programming Systems. "Smalltalk/V provides a solid 
foundation for developing Common User Access (CUA) - compliant applications
in SAA cooperative processing environments. Our work with Digitalk is one
step in IBM's commitment to using object-oriented programming in our products
and platforms," Wheeler said.

James A. Anderson, President of Digitalk said, "We are delighted that IBM is
using Smalltalk/V in product development. Digitalk will be working closely
with IBM on enhancements to Smalltalk/V, including a set of visual programming
tools, increased AD/Cycle integration and SAA compliance. The resulting 
products will allow our customers to deliver applications more effectively
than ever before."

Smalltalk/V is an object-oriented programming language and development
environment that Digitalk developed for IBM personal computers. Digitalk
currently markets Smalltalk/V development environments worldwide for DOS, OS/2 and the Apple Macintosh, with a Microsoft Windows 3.0 version planned.

** end of reprint from a press release issued by IBM on October, 15 1990. **
** taken from Scoop newsletter Vol.3 No.4, 1990  (by Digitalk)            **


I think that this annoncement makes quite clear, that we will see Smalltalk/V
in the full range of product development within SAA. We will see if it intendedto be a tool for rapid prototyping only (very interesting is Anderson's 
statement concerning integration of Smalltalk into AD/Cycle, IBM's strategic
CASE system !), or maybe as a new SAA programming language (Andersom says that
they willwork _together with IBM_ on visual programming tools).

Is anybody out there who has some more informations ??

Ulf