[squeak-dev] Location-Aware Networks, Context and Business-Intelligence

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Apr 26 23:30:47 UTC 2012


On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:56:46AM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:
> If anyone is interested in a story about Squeak being used in real
> business today, the slides for my STIC 2012 talk are available on
> STIC's website.
> 
>     http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic12/stic12-abstracts/location-aware-networks-context-and-business-intelligence/
> 
> It's an experience report about an upgrade to 4Dst's "Awareness
> Engine" product, a Squeak-based telephone switching system which they
> market.  In 2011, a GIS module plug-in was integrated into the
> application to provide regional call routing capability to this
> production system which has been running continuously since 2009.
> 
> What's not mentioned in the talk is that we simultaneously upgraded
> the underlying Smalltalk platform from Squeak 3.9 to 4.2 (a
> significant improvement).  Squeak's practical attitude about
> backward-compatibility proved to be very business-friendly -- the
> upgrade was completed rapidly and implemented into production without
> issues.

Thanks for sharing this Chris. Zero service interruptions since August 2009
is very good performance, and is hard to achieve with any new software
system.

Dave



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