Largest Provider of Commercial Smalltalk
Cincom is one of the largest commercial providers of Smalltalk, with twice as many partners and customers than other commercial providers.
Tom Nies
Cincom Smalltalk vs. Java
Cincom Smalltalk™ is an object-oriented development environment with two distinct product offerings: Cincom® ObjectStudio® and Cincom® VisualWorks®. ObjectStudio is a Vista-certified, Windows-centric development and deployment environment, while VisualWorks is a cross-platform development and deployment environment. Both help developers build applications quickly and efficiently, from highly scalable web and web 2.0 applications to classic client/server systems.
Smalltalk was created by a handpicked group of computer engineers and scientists at the innovative Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). This group was given the task of making computing so easy that a child could do it. Their resources were virtually unlimited, and they had no deadlines or product pressures.
The end result was a simple, versatile and tremendously powerful object-oriented development environment. Smalltalk shaped modern computing and still delivers better productivity than competing dynamic languages like Java, Ruby, Python, C++, and Visual Basic.
