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Now, this is ironic - I stumbled across this IBM VAST partner site today. That page offers Web Services expertise using VAST. Now, scroll about 2/3 of the way down, and note what they use to bolster their argument:

So, why go for Smalltalk?

"Over-complexity? Gartner reports that 70% of Java projects fail. They also report that something like 80% of J2EE projects don't use EJB (or much at all from J2EE) - mostly they use these products as scalable app servers for JSP. That's an awfully expensive strategy"...James Robertson, Product Manager, Cincom Smalltalk

See also: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3217524055

Heh. If they can use my arguments to sell Smalltalk based Web Services, maybe they should try out the product I was talking about