On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:43:41 -0400, Lex Spoon lex@cc.gatech.edu wrote:
I don't know of anyone actually using Squeak for something that is really, truly secret. We might imagine, though, that people might one day build commercial services in Squeak.
We might indeed.
I'm involved in three commercial Squeak/Seaside projects right now, at varying levels of secrecy. One is funded by the University of British Columbia, and so is quite open: it's a web application that lets researchers enter and manage their CV information in a structured form (or import it from course registration databases and journal indices), and then automates the process of generating grant applications and the like. I count it as a commercial project because although it was developed for internal use, there's been a lot of interest in licensing it from other insitutions.
The second, which is more secret, is a piece of internal infrastructure for a financial institution.
Avi