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Farewell Dolphin Smalltalk
Sad news...11 August 2007
by Huw Collingbourne
I’m sad to hear that the superb Dolphin Smalltalk is no longer being developed. I’ve used Dolphin Smalltalk on and off over quite a few years and have also written tutorials and features on it for Bitwise Magazine and on my software company’s blog. It’s a lovely product - even by Smalltalk standards - but it seems that commercial realities have meant that continued development is not an option...
Andy Bower, of Object Arts, announced this in the Dolphin Smalltalk newsgroup yesterday...
“We will continue to distribute the free version of Dolphin X6 indefinitely but, as from today, we will not be selling the Professional version. Some limited support will remain in place for existing users of X6 but there will not be a future major release of Dolphin for .net (or Mac or Linux).”
What a shame to see such a great product fade away like this....
At least, there is the free version. I encourage you all to download and use it. It will help you to understand why this is such sad news.
The Object Arts Web Site