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From: rfenney@directnet.com (Robert J. Fenney)
Subject: Re: Microsoft enters the Smalltalk IDE market? True?
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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 02:37:31 GMT
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In article <45jgnm$met@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, positiv1@ix.netcom.com
(Suzanne Snow) wrote:

>     I guess this gives us all the fun of speculating.    Microsoft
> seems to copy more than invent.   Look at the resources that have been
> placed into copying the Mac look and feel.  
>      If they felt Smalltalk was going to be a big seller they would
> simply buy PP as Chuck suggested.  Then they would fire all the old
> expensive PP people and replace them with college students.
>     Smalltalk would just be a headache to Microsoft.   But I'll start a
> more plausible rumor.  PP will continue to lose money (because of bad
> marketing, lack of inovation, and old staff) and will finally be bought
> by IBM.   IBM because they have already invested in Smalltalk, and are
> much more needy of new products than Microsoft.      


Why spend the money for PP when they could pik up QKS for much smaller
amount. QKS has sayed that they want into the WINDOWS market and they don't
have any OS/2  or unix bagage to deal with. This has been their method in
the past. If they do go for a Smalltalk it will be for the corporate market
and meant to puch NT into accounts they have run oiut of steam in with VB
(which is anybody that has implemented any type of C/S and/or mission
critical app.
