[hipitihop]

I made a fulltime living between 1993 - 2005 using VizualWorks which is the original descendant Smalltalk from ParcPlace which came out of Xerox PARC. Systems are still in production across industries. It was a particular favourite with banks and Wall St for decades and some like JP Morgan still use it http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/successes/financial-serv...

[throwaway7645]

I saw JPMorgan on the Pharo Consortium list. Any idea how they use it? I get the feeling large banks use almost EVERYTHING as they even have a lot of APL language use in house with A+ & kdb+.

[ben-coman]

Actually I was surprised to see JP Morgan there. I don't watch it closely but they seem a recent addition. Their "Kapital" system is based on Cincom Smalltalk. I wouldn't speculate they are porting it. Facilitating a viable open source Smalltalk alternative may just for negotiating power with their incumbent Smalltalk. http://www.cincom.com/pdf/CS040819-1.pdf