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From: dlf@decalpha.sac.unify.com (Douglas Frink)
Subject: Re: Digitalk... The end... (
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 16:45:45 GMT


In article <00416.2876376300.61171@instance.com>, allen@digitalk.com (Allen Wirfs-Brock) writes:
|>        Reply to:   RE>Digitalk... The end... (not)
|>>From: "Thierry G. Thelliez" <tgt@LANL.GOV>
|>...
|>>Are this info correct ? Does this mean that Digitalk might end soon ?
|>>Other info about the futur of Digitalk ?
|>
|>Digitalk is very healthy! Our sales and profitability levels are at all time
|>highs and growing. We have recently successfully completed the most
|>comprehensive set of new product releases in our history.  We "own" the
|>Window's Smalltalk market. 
|>
|>The Smalltalk business is now dominated by companies using professional
|>sales forces targeted at corporate customers.  Creating FUD (fear,
|>uncertainty & doubt) about competitors  is a standard sales tactic. Don't
|>believe everything you hear.
|>
|>Allen Wirfs-Brock
|>Digitalk
|>
|>P.S.  Have you heard how much money IBM has lost in the last 5 years?? ;-) 
|>
|>

Check out the Feb 20 issue of Open Systems Today.  There is a comparison
of Digitalk's Visual Smalltalk, IBM's Visual Age, and ParcPlace's Visual
Works.  The author recommends Visual Smalltalk.
