Last October and November we previewed the MarqueeDialog and the Progress Bar. These were inspired by the ObjectStudio New GUI Project, and they will be available in ObjectStudio 8.5.
The Cincom Smalltalk Team has created a customer survey as part of an effort to help understand the needs of customers and users.This is the first in a series of surveys that will serve as a valuable fact-finding tool. The SiouX-Server is a new framework for developing Web servers. The main motivation was to build an HTTP server with Xtreams with the goal of squeezing as much scalability and performance out of it as we can.How were Google and Apple able to rise above the competition? By borrowing a page from the tenets of Smalltalk: Simplicity.We are pleased to announce that the evaluation copies of the new releases of ObjectStudio and VisualWorks are now available for personal use!
Last month I introduced a utility application for visualization of an application’s progress. 
At the last ESUG conference in Gent, Andreas Hiltner gave an “Lightning Talk” about the Cincom® ObjectStudio® new GUI project. The goal of this project is to create a new GUI library of Windows native widgets for ObjectStudio using DLLCC instead of writing them in C. In October, we looked at the Marquee Dialog. This time we would like to present the ProgressBarDialog.Meeting clients’ needs and requirements is a top priority for the Cincom Smalltalk team. Therefore, in an effort to better meet the platform needs of our clients and to better focus our efforts on client requirements, the Cincom Smalltalk Team has created a survey to determine and understand which platforms clients are currently running Cincom Smalltalk on, and which platforms clients are planning to run on in the future.
The defrag tool was my inspiration to make something else useful—a progress Window in Smalltalk. 
