At 12:16 17/03/2011, Ralph Johnson wrote:
Marketing is crucial, and a weakness in the Smalltalk. 

Exact! And, in my experience, even when you have a unique and at least in theory widely applicable Smalltalk-based solution, its marketing implies often facing the lack of suitable Smalltalk marketing strategies in general, which overall makes your task really hard.

Regards
Reza Razavi
http://adaptiveobjectmodel.com/blog/
http://www.afacms.com/blog/pontoon-app/