March 25, 2011
1:59 p.m.
On Mar 25, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
VA was nearly killed by IBM and they played it well not selling their smalltalk part to google. We will see how they will play it in the future.
You seem a bit confused here. IBM sold (most of) its Smalltalk business to Instantiations several years ago and Instantiations sold its Java business to Google last year. Given that, I'm not sure if it is IBM that you think "nearly killed" VA, or Instantiations, which "played it well" by keeping Smalltalk. James