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
[2]
http://www.rezarazavi.com/about/cv/publications/iwst-2010
[3]
http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/people?user=razavi