<div class="gmail_extra">Yes, I agree with David, not a lot of new systems can claim such availability.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks by share the history Chris, we (in Smalltalk world) need lot of such sort of experiences!</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Germán.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/26 David T. Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lewis@mail.msen.com" target="_blank">lewis@mail.msen.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:56:46AM -0500, Chris Muller wrote:<br>
> If anyone is interested in a story about Squeak being used in real<br>
> business today, the slides for my STIC 2012 talk are available on<br>
> STIC's website.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic12/stic12-abstracts/location-aware-networks-context-and-business-intelligence/" target="_blank">http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic12/stic12-abstracts/location-aware-networks-context-and-business-intelligence/</a><br>
><br>
> It's an experience report about an upgrade to 4Dst's "Awareness<br>
> Engine" product, a Squeak-based telephone switching system which they<br>
> market. In 2011, a GIS module plug-in was integrated into the<br>
> application to provide regional call routing capability to this<br>
> production system which has been running continuously since 2009.<br>
><br>
> What's not mentioned in the talk is that we simultaneously upgraded<br>
> the underlying Smalltalk platform from Squeak 3.9 to 4.2 (a<br>
> significant improvement). Squeak's practical attitude about<br>
> backward-compatibility proved to be very business-friendly -- the<br>
> upgrade was completed rapidly and implemented into production without<br>
> issues.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Thanks for sharing this Chris. Zero service interruptions since August 2009<br>
is very good performance, and is hard to achieve with any new software<br>
system.<br>
<br>
Dave<br>
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