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Original Post: Koramis SpecSheet Web app
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Hans-Peter Fichtner is an electrical engineer talking about their Smalltalk web application. Interesting talk title: "Electrical Engineers and How Smalltalk saved me from an Error". Koramis builds technical software engineering tools in the process/plant control area.
What do a cup, a toilet tank, and a lock (canal) have in common? The definition of an application liquid level
So you have differences in the process, environment, control, and auxiliary power. There are millions of pieces of products with thousands of attributes, The SpecSheet reduces these products to their component functions. So what they needed was:
A new web based app for transparent device specification by many users
A summary of the most important functions and specifications for the components
We got a walk-through of the web application next - it's a nice looking application, but I can't really convey that here - even if I did have screen shots.
So how did they get to Cincom Smalltalk (VisualWorks)? In 2001 they started to look at web enablement. In 2002 they got a recommendation to look at VW. In 2003, they started to work with Heeg, and it's been a success since then. The product is being launched in January, and has a real chance at becoming an industry standard - Koramis works with 600,000 people in 75,000 engineering companies.
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