looking  at Object Arts | Exciting News for Dolphin Users we read:

Object Arts announces a collaboration with Lesser Software to produce the next generation of Dolphin Smalltalk.

We hope Dolphin Smalltalk will not die: we have that fear  in September 2007 reading a press release called "A Brighter Future for Dolphin?".

ObjectsArts was asking money to get Dolphin open source. A rather bad move, in our own opinion, and in fact no thing happen. Now it seems Doplphin will be included in a bigger project. Good luck, big fish!

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Here you can find my Squeak Tutorial for Java Programmers.

I have written it for my friends and for all java guys out of there

[UPDATE] Smalltalk For Java Programmers PDF is available at this url

iPhone is the brand-new Apple product which has changed the way Apple thinks. Because of iPhone, Apple strip the word "Computers" from its brand name. And because of iPods and iPhone products, Lepoard developmenet slip a bit, blurring the focus on pure technology.
To be true, I do not beat on  the iPhone success, but the product success is at least  bright this year. And the iPod touch has also added value to the iPods product catalog. But I am an IT-man, damn you boy! So I want to buy it to play with it, to program with it!

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There is a future for SmallTalk? I was a very strong fan of the SmallTalk language, but in the last five years I have seen more and more contraction of its usage in the IT field.

The OLPC project, which uses also Squeak Smalltalk and its done by the core team fo Squeak, is not going very well.

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I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.

In the article pointed out, the quite dead Chandler project is compared to the multi-billion Eclipse project. And then a too easy analysis is done against dynamic languages, where Java is the absolute winner.

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The trends of this october are about some upcoming products. A clear analisys of QuarkXPress failure is sketched in roughlydrafted site. I do not think the same consideration can be applied to Vista.

As Joel said, M$ can throw away much money before only starting to see its market reduced.

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