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From: Timothy Reaves <reaves@unix.asb.com>
Subject: Re: Goodbye ParcPlace
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David Brown wrote:
> 
> leotta@paradigmdesign.com wrote:
> >Too late, PP-D has abandoned VisualSmalltalk.  Looks like it will abandon everthing but VisualWave for Windows.  So completes the prophecy that everyone wants to develope in Windows only.  (Except those that are chased to IBM's VisualAge).
> 
> Have you got evidence, or are you just spreading FUD?
> 
> I cornered the CEO of ParcPlace (name slipped my mind right now) at
> the Users Conference, and asked him about just that.  His answer was
> that VW needed work to incorporate what VSE already had -- SLL's,
> native widgets, event driven architecture, etc.  He assured me that
> VSE was NOT dead, and that they had committed to further version
> releases.
> 
> dave

     My parcPlace rep has stated the same thing: VSE will no longer see
development, maintanance only. OS/2 and Mac are dead, jigsaw is dead.
