For those who doubt Smalltalk's ability to scale, there's some real-world examples:

I work for a major shipping company. We have a massive OODB and Smalltalk Application (500 gig range) with 3 million lines of code. We have 2000 plus daily users. We can do 700 transactions a second before slowing down. We also have a Java + SQL +EMS system. On a good day they can do 70 transactions a second, with three times the hardware.

Anything you own that was originally shipped in a container was probably tracked by Smalltalk.

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