Squeak, E.Commerce, E.Community and dynabooks

Vandendriessche, Frederik frederik.vandendriessche at eds.com
Fri Jan 7 16:19:33 UTC 2000


Dear Squeakers,

Okay, a bit late but here it is anyway:  

Happy new year and best wishes to all of you that care about object oriented
programming (and your friends) !!!

Sure, this is not the reason for my mail;  here is the real question,  maybe
Mark G. is best placed to answer (?);


I browsed through the presentation
<http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu:8888/cs2340/uploads/gvubb-nov99.ppt and 
noticed at the end the "what squeak is not for" section.  I was amazed when
I saw  "E.Commerce and other 
high-traffic sites" in that section.

Can anyone document this statement ?  Why is squeak not fit for those
purposes ?

I am asking because I had/still have the intention to do something like that
with squeak, but now I am not sure anymore/a little confused.

I work with EDS (Electronic Data Systems) E.Solutions (our E.Commerce
business line) in Belgium, where I have to functions:
- e.system engineer (I develop network applications. We use Java / MS /
Oracle solutions, no Smalltalk :-(
- solution manager for E.Community (E.Community stands for networked
collaboration (very short description, I know)).
Also, I consider myself an 'OO freak' (the rest <i>stinks</i>).

I suppose I do not need to tell you that "collaborative dynabooks" are my
cup of tea.  
I am very interested in any steps undertaken to achieve this goal.  Are
there any positions free ???
Where can I find the current status of this project ?


That's it for now.
Cheers,
Fred

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Please note that the statements above are mine, and to not reflect the
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Frederik Vandendriessche
System Engineer @ E.Solutions
EDS Belgium, Brussels
e-mail	Frederik.Vandendriessche at eds.com
tel  32/0  2  711 37 83
fax 32/0  2  711 39 47


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