I've mentioned this before, but we formally announced the change today in the Cincom Smalltalk Digest for October: Arden Thomas is now the Product Manager, and I'm now the Product Evangelist. Which is really just a formalization of what we were each doing anyway. Arden is a great guy who's been around Smalltalk a long time - he gives some of that background over on his blog.

Interestingly enough, Arden and I go back a ways. We both worked at ParcPlace and its successors in the 90's - and in 1995 we switched jobs - I moved from training and consulting to Sales Engineering, and he went the other way. We each had it in our heads that it would drop our travel requirements :) Even further back, we attended the same high school at the same time - Arden even had my dad as a math teacher. We didn't know each other back then - which is too bad, because I could have written him hall passes :)

Anyway, this is a good move for everyone, and it should help us keep the Smalltalk ball moving forward. Why don't you go ahead and subscribe to Arden's blog now?

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