I received the following message: *We started off doing a small project in conservation in South Africa that involved tracking Rhinos in a remote GPS denied environment and ended up with some impressive building blocks for a Big Data Platform for IoT. The platform includes its own GIS subsystem and parts of an Expert System.
Due to the choice made by my business partner and handful of contractors the platform ended up being built in Smalltalk on Squeak VM and the Magma Object Database. We now believe we may have the beginning of a commercial platform however its notoriously difficult to find Smalltalk developers so I am in half minds to migrate to a platform which uses a more mainstream language (Java / Python) as I have been getting some strange reactions from Angel Investors / VCs and mainstream developers. ... I wanted to ask you if you have information on how big the Smalltalk community is and whether its better to migrate to Pharo from Squeak and what types of recent industrial projects youve come across that use Smalltalk? Also I wondered if you know of any active smalltalk group in Silicon Valley and what are the best forums for professional SmallTalk development.* I would very much like to save their project as a Smalltalk project. The principal issue seems to be finding enough Smalltalk developers. I don't know if they need on-site developers or if remote developers can pass muster. I strongly suspect the former. How hard would it be to find Smalltalkers willing to work in Silicon Valley, or South Africa? What is the best response to this person? Thanks. -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
