Thanks to Greg and John (was Re: [ANN] Instantiations to Take Lead on VA Smalltalk)

"Eric Clayberg" <clayberg@instantiations.com> wrote in message
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> People like John O'Keefe and Greg Bonadies at IBM were instrumental in
> making this happen, so, if you ever get a chance to thank them personally,
> please do so.

Absolutely right.

Greg and John worked tirelessly to arrange a soft landing for VAST. IBM
could easily have thrown it in the trash can.

I am actually surprised that they didn't since trashing VAST would have
forced customers (like JWARS) who have no intention of -ever- leaving
Smalltalk to migrate somewhere. Instead, the deal with Instantiations lets
JWARS continue down our preferred path, which deprives IBM of some revenue,
however small.