Hi,

I want to use Squeak to re-write an application for my work.
It's a monitoring application:
    - there are different equipments located in different countries;
    - the PC has a modem.  When there is a problem on a equipment, it 
automatically calls the monitoring PC to report it and to give informations 
to help the diagnosis and the correction;
    - after the monitoring PC received an incident notification, it calls 
the maintenance guy with a pager or a GSM (sms)
    - the incidents, the collected informations , the maintenance calls, ... 
are stored in a database.
I have written this application already twice: one in TurboC and Turbo 
Prolog on DOS and the other in Visual Basic on Windows.

To communicate to the equipments, I am thinking about developing the 
protocol on the base of the code found in SqBot.
For the database, GOODS seems to be a good (sic) solution.

I don't ask for solution, only for guidelines and advices.  Do you think its 
"playable" ? Is it recommended to use Squeak to develop an "industrial" 
project ?

I have little experience in smalltalk.  I have played a little with Squeak 
during the last years: it's a nice language and a nice environment but I am 
afraid of the lack of stability. For example, I saved a little project 
(written to play with morphic) and now I am not able to load it anymore in a 
fresh image.  The project is not important but in a case like this, is there 
any way to explore a "lost" project when it is not possible to reload it and 
the development image is lost ? What is the safest way to make development 
to avoid losing everything ?

Thanks