<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, <DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Am 05.10.2005 um 22:16 schrieb stéphane ducasse:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For the risk aspect of squeak.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I think that this is important that companies developing software in Squeak</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">let us mention it on the web site.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I know (because people contacted privately) that certain companies do not</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">want to say that they develop in squeak serious applications (telecom swift, stock exchange programs).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">So the first step is to say on the web site that squeak is serious</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and start a list of companies.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I could imagine because if a company make its decision for squeak public it may happen that their customers hear it :-))</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But without joke and although I'm aware that this is difficult: not only the decision itself, but the reason why using squeak would be interesting. Than it is documented that there are good reasons to use non MS stuff to make products, and in consequence it would help to find arguments for others to use squeak.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regards</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hans</DIV></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>