Randal Schwartz on Smalltalk:

If there is any year for Smalltalk to regain a commercial visibility, this will be it.  I mean, look at all the things coming together:

• the OLPC XO is putting Smalltalk into the hands of thousands of young kids
• Cincom and Gemstone are stepping up to support Seaside in a big way
• Gemstone is offering the single-instance free commercial license and GLASS quickstart appliance
• Squeak's license is finally getting cleaned up
• Seaside is reaching a nice level of maturity
• Seaside running on GNU Smalltalk for those that want a command-line environment
• Croquet is maturing, even being adopted as a commercial "virtual meeting" space
• Ruby on Rails has reestablished dynamic languages as useful for the web

He's right - from command line and files to full bore environments, Seaside has it all, and it runs portably across all major Smalltalk implementations. On the relational database side, that connection is handled by GLORP - which is also OSS and portable.

Come on in, the water is fine :)

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