We are pleased to announce that ObjectStudio 8 has been released - if you are a Cincom Smalltalk customer, you can expect the installation media sometime in the next few weeks. Our first customer of the new release has already taken electronic delivery, and has been working closely with us on the development - they are in the process of deploying an application on ObjectStudio 8 this month. I am not exaggerating when I say that we could not have done this without them - they have been very helpful and very patient!

So what's new? Well, this white paper (PDF) explains a lot of what ObjectStudio 8 is about. What we've done is port ObjectStudio Smalltalk into a VisualWorks namespace, so that it can run on the VisualWorks VM. This has given ObjectStudio better performance, and has also opened up doors for all of our customers:

• ObjectStudio 8 developers now have direct access to all the VW libraries that have been built up over the last few years - such as Web Services, Security, Web Toolkit.
• VisualWorks developers now have access to a native UI toolset on the Windows platform
• ObjectStudio and VisualWorks developers have a unified set of tools to work from (browser, debugger), enabling cross-product learning to happen much faster

You can head over to the ObjectStudio blog to find out what the ObjectStudio team is up to. Enjoy the release, and feel free to send any comments my way. We will be updating the non-commercial download area to include OS 8 soon.

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