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From: Hasko Heinecke <hasko@heeg.de>
Subject: Re: Learning Curve and Maintenance Effort of Gemstone
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Marcus TBC wrote:
> 
> Anyone who has Gemstone experience know roughly how long it will take a
> programmer to learn how to use Gemstone and how long does an administrator
> take to learn to adminster and maintain Gemstone ?

Learning to use GemStone takes several steps IMHO. You've finished the
first step when you notice that GemStone is extremly transparent and you
just go and run your Client applications on top of GemStone. Usually, an
experienced Smalltalk programmer reaches this point after only one week
or so.

The next step is learning how to develop a multi-user Smalltalk
application. That's the hard part. Smalltalk developers are so used to
single-user environments. Often they find it's hard to deal with
multiple users... But then I can only speak for myself. ;-)

If you are going to buy GemStone I strongly suggest you take a course or
two. It's simply less expensive than re-writing your application after
you learned it the hard way.

Hasko
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