At 10:59 17/03/2011, Geert Claes wrote:
Question is; what can be done to have more Smalltalkers use a Smalltalk based blog system and attract non-Smalltalkers to try a Smalltalk CMS?
CMS is not necessarily the best market for Smalltalk. But, there are application areas where: (a) having a CMS as an integrated component of the whole application software is a major added-value, and (b) the application area is complex and dynamic enough to motivate using Smalltalk as implementation language. An example of such application area is cloud-based provisioning of individualized and adaptive services to the elderly (information, monitoring, networking, etc). This objective is extremely hard to achieve in an affordable, acceptable and reliable way. In spite of huge investments, it remains a major open area of research and development. However, as argued previously [1, 2, 3], it is possible to address it to a large extent by a combination of Smalltalk-based solutions, including a CMS (Pier). So, an alternative approach to develop Smalltalk is extending its application areas (far) beyond what is possible with competing, and much better documented and marketed, languages. This is actually why we specifically invest in the above mentioned area (ambient assisted living), and would very welcome interested parties for technical, commercial, and scientific collaborations. Cheers, Reza Razavi [1] <http://www.rezarazavi.com/about/cv/publications/pppo-2011>http://www.rezarazavi.com/about/cv/publications/pppo-2011 [2] http://www.rezarazavi.com/about/cv/publications/iwst-2010 [3] <http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/people?user=razavi>http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/people?user=razavi