Software Development: A Cost Conscious Way to Outmaneuver the Competition

Sponsor: Cincom Systems, Inc.
Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner, Inc.
Speakers: Thomas E. Murphy, Suzanne M. Fortman
Type: Video (13 minutes)

Smalltalk is a robust application development environment, and a powerful solution, that can offer a unique competitive advantage to your organization. How does it work? Well, Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically-typed, reflective programming language that...

  • Enables experimentation
  • Includes a set of tools that allow your developers to collaborate
  • Is the foundation for many of the techniques that are incorporated in agile development practices
  • Is helpful in terms of support for unit testing and in terms of support for the ability to have short cycles
  • Is conducive to this economy, where you need tools to be productive, as well as tools to protect existing investments

In this program, leading experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and Cincom Systems, Inc., reveal a solution that features a new and very rare Web-based integrated development environment that provides immediate feedback. With this solution much of the Web development awkwardness is removed, affording easier Web development that feels like regular programming.

So watch this new program now and find out why more and more companies are turning to Smalltalk to realize their business goals. Go now.

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About Thomas E. Murphy
Thomas Murphy is a research director with Gartner, where he is part of the Web Services and Application Development Services. Mr. Murphy has more than 25 years of experience in IT, spending time as a developer, product manager, technical editor and industry analyst. Prior to rejoining Gartner, he worked at Microsoft in the Visual Studio Team System group. Previously, he was an analyst with Meta Group and Gartner. He has served on the board of directors for the OMG and led product strategies at ObjectShare. Early in his career, he served as a technical editor at Software Development and AI Expert magazines and built custom tools for scientific research and embedded systems. His development experience includes embedded systems, Smalltalk, Java, and model-based environments and agile techniques.

About Suzanne M. Fortman
Suzanne Fortman is the Smalltalk STAR Team Program Director at Cincom Systems, Inc.