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From: Henry Zabokrzycki <henryz@nt.com>
Subject: Re: What happened to ObjectStore for Smalltalk?
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In article <4tr88a$rag@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com>,
Frank Sauer <sauer@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Last year when we decided to purchase VisualWorks, ObjectStore had a
>Smalltalk API, which was a major reason why we chose Visualworks in
>the first place, since we have existing large ObjectStore databases.
>Now we are finally ready to interface, the ObjectStore API seems to
>have vanished..... ODI says that they took the JAVA path and simply
>dropped the Smalltalk market altogether. Can someone explain to me
>what the reasoning was behind this (in my opinion questionable)
>decision? Any alternatives? I heard about a product available from
>Germany somewhere, but I don't know any details.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Frank
>---------------------------------------------------
>Frank Sauer
>Center for Medical Imaging and Medical Informatics
>sauer@cmiami.med.miami.edu
>sauer@ix.netcom.com
>

They 'revectored' to a longer term strategy for support of different language
bindings in a more generic way, as opposed to tight integration with the
Parc Place virtual machine. Definitely impacted those of us who had shorter
term plans, but their strategy makes sense in the longer run, you can see 
they are concentrating a lot on Java.

One alternative would be to architect a middle layer with an ORB, say ExperSoft
or Iona.

Henry Zabokrzycki

Nortel

email: henryz@nt.com
phone: 905-863-2223
