GemStone Systems acquired by SpringSource

Our community was shocked with the news about the acquisition of Gemstone Systems by Springsource, a VMware division. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition would help VMware to advance in its vision for cloud computing. The focus maybe is in GemFire, a product which distributes data to reduce network latency. However, Springsource said that it will continue to fully support GemStone's products. It has been a big debate in our list about this, and the experience with acquisitions in the past.

We all know that Smalltalk is not the mainstream, but we hope that in the future Gemstone/S will continue to grow.

References

• http://www.springsource.com/gemstone-systems-acquisition-faq

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James Foster presenting Gemstone/S at Smalltalks 2009

This is a presentation by James Foster at Smalltalks 2009. It's an introduction to Gemstone technology. For more information, please visit his blog at: http://programminggems.wordpress.com/.

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Download the GLASS appliance

The plattaform GLASS (Gemstone, Linux, Apache, Smalltalk and Seaside) has a GLASS Virtual Appliance to download (It's a VWware image so you will need to install the VMWare Player). It's the best way to test it without any kind of instalation. Please, before downloading the appliance be sure that you have a 64bit processor. The Wmware is running with an Unbutu/64 OS.

Another tip: Read how to configure the network or your services will be unavailable.

Download it from: seaside.gemstone.com/downloads.html

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