hi frank

Frank I can tell you that we are really concerned about making sure 
that people can make money with squeak.... Adrian has a company with 9 
people developing partly in squeak and this is important for him,
and I'm sure that other people are also relying on squeak. Our goal (if 
you read the roadmap for 3.9)
was to offer a better environment for developers (refactorings all the 
way down, better tools, completion,........).
So what I suggest to you is not to be worried. I think that goran and 
his crew will do a good job.

What should worries you is that important fixes and changes to improve 
the system gets stuck
because nobody cares.

With the SqF what we are trying to do is to have a real good web site 
so that clients of your company can go and get insured that squeak is 
not a toy. Because adrian got the problem that he cannot tell to his 
clients
that it is developed in Squeak. The seaside web site is part of this 
overall effort that I'm pushing to get Squeak and seaside a better 
look. And I think that www.seaside.st has a cool look. Isn't it?

Stef


>> Thank you for showing us your support. Each and every such posting 
>> helps
>> us at this point.
>
> Hi Göran,
>
> so here's my support posting. *g* As some of you may know I'm 
> currently developing
> aweb-based requirement, change and issue management tool in Squeal. 
> Two spin-offs will
> be my Common Smalltalk Library (some useful stuff like pools, named 
> pools,
> multi-language support, an IoC container, Seaside add-ons) and the 
> Smalltalk Object Sink
> (an ODBMS using almost any RDBMS as backend, no mapper). Everything is 
> intended to be
> open source. Especially the libraries shall be released soon.
>
> But the discussion troubles the last weeks brought doubts to me. For a 
> short time I
> thought about changing the platform. But now, after your "revolution", 
> I'm sure that
> Squeak will got the right way.
>
>> Well, we are in this for real. And right now the "fun" is quite 
>> absent,
>> I can tell you, given some of the reactions. But hopefully it will get
>> better when we earn your trust.
>
> I trust in your and I hope my work will be an additional factor to let 
> Squeak be
> platform with a growing audience.
>
> Sincerely yours
>
> mue
>
> -- 
> **
> ** Frank Mueller / Oldenburg / Germany
> **
> ** frank at mweb.de / http://frank.mweb.de
> **
>