It seems to me MagLev would make a good neroli like hosting environment. Fewer moving parts.
Michael
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On Mar 9, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Geert Claes <
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>
> Esteban A. Maringolo wrote:
>>
>> Can somebody, hopefully from the GemStone/S team, explain what is the
>> current situation of GemStone/S?
>>
>> SpringSource is focused on the Java market, as GemFire was before the
>> acquisition. That would mean no change whatsoever. But it is not the same
>> to keep a Smalltalk product as part of a company that started being
>> Smalltalk based. I know also that GS/S has it's own market on the
>> successful companies already using it, but it doesn't seem to be clear
>> what is going to happen.
>>
>
> Hi Esteban, I am not a Gemstone/S team member but I really don't think this
> acquisition will affect the Smalltalk side of Gemstone i.e Gemstone/S much -
> if anything - at all.
>
> Wavemaker was a company I'd been following since they were still called
> ActiveGrid (and when CogHead was still around) because the whole Cloud IDE
> and PaaS is where I'd invest my money on .. if I had it :) One of the key
> investors behind Wavemaker was actually Mitchell Kertzman from the old
> client/server market leading PowerBuilder IDE.
>
> I actually really thought that Gemstone/S was in a great position to create
> a Smalltalk based cloud IDE/PaaS, but my guess is that since its parent
> company has now put their eggs in the Java/SpringSource basket that's now
> very unlikely going to happen :)
>
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