Hello Germán,

Germán Arduino wrote:

> Contratulations Janko!

Thanks!

> This is a very good new and deserve some reflections:
> 1. The open source really works!

Yep. Even that Aida was open-sourced two years later, in 2000, it was 
this action which helped me a lot. Now Aida is developed side by side 
with my other commercial products and already by help of community as 
well. So a good mixture of open-source and a commercial activity is a 
way to go, I think for Squeak too.

> 2. Not need to change the systems each 2 or 3 years (as is the
> interest of most of "big players")

Agreed, but that's easy to understand, those players have a profit out 
of such frequent changes.

> 3. A single motivated and smart guy may develop anything comparable
> and better than the products of "big players"

This is a very interesting observation indeed. How much more you as an 
individual can actually do comparing to hordes of coders in these big 
players. Well, maybe from a commercial viewpoint we are not welcome? At 
the end it is somehow more profitable to have a factory of such coders 
instead of few dedicated individuals. Strange I know, but looks true.

> 4. "Write your own reflection here" :)

HEre others are invited to join! :)

Best regards
JAnko

> 
> Cheers.
> Germán.
> 
> 
> 
> 2008/2/1, Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si>:
>> Dear Smalltalkers,
>>
>> It is my pleasure to announce two anniversaries of Aida/Web web
>> application framework:
>>
>> - 10 years of continuously running Aida/Web application: Gas Billing
>> System (GBS) for our national gas operator, surviving big business
>> changes like country tax system change to VAT, deregulation of EU energy
>> market, split of company to gas trader and gas transport operator, and
>> recently currency change to Euro. It is running on VisualWorks and
>> Gemstone/S;
>>
>> - 1 year of our new website - see graph of first page visits on our website:
>>
>>         http://www.aidaweb.si
>>
>> Currently we have near 100 first page visits per day, which maps
>> roughly to 100 daily visitors. After June spike (announcement of Squeak
>> port), past month had a record visit. You can track statistics by
>> yourself here:
>>
>>      http://www.aidaweb.si/stat.html
>>
>> And conclusion? Aida/Web is becoming more and more known around and with
>> active and increasing community it is a good choice for web development
>> needs on many fields, from business applications to regular websites.
>> And we didn't say a final word yet. Stay tuned!
>>
>> Janko Mivšek
>>
>> --
>> Janko Mivšek
>> AIDA/Web
>> Smalltalk Web Application Server
>> http://www.aidaweb.si
>>
>>
> 
> 

-- 
Janko Mivšek
AIDA/Web
Smalltalk Web Application Server
http://www.aidaweb.si