Cincom Smalltalk™ The perfect solution for delivering applications on time and under budget. Cincom SmalltalkTM Deliver Perfect Applications at the Speed of Thought Cincom Smalltalk is a cross-platform development Current Release Products and Services technology that helps developers quickly and efficiently build applications—from classic client/server systems to For four decades a market-leading development highly scalable web applications. language and in its second decade under Cincom leadership, Cincom Smalltalk is a rich set of application Cincom Smalltalk’s frameworks give you tactical and development environments and tools. Cincom Smalltalk strategic advantages over Java, Ruby, PHP, Eclipse, is ideally suited for users who need to build custom and Visual Studio, helping you develop software with applications to support complex, rapidly changing unparalleled productivity and fast reaction time, so you business requirements to meet urgent time-to-market deliver perfect applications at the speed of thought. needs. • ObjectStudio combines a native Windows environment with access to the extensive VisualWorks libraries. Cincom Smalltalk’s Value to You ObjectStudio delivers perfect Windows applications faster with a modeling tool that simplifies development ® With any of Cincom Smalltalk’s frameworks—ObjectStudio and design, and a mapping tool that simplifies storage ® for native Windows applications, VisualWorks for cross- and retrieval of data from the relational database, TM platform development, or Web Velocity for web enhances deployment, and speeds delivery time and applications—you get unparalleled productivity and fast ROI. ObjectStudio 8 is the first and only Smalltalk reaction time to changing business realities for tactical environment to receive Microsoft’s Vista certification. and strategic advantages over your competition. • VisualWorks is a robust Smalltalk Integrated Easy to learn and use, Cincom Smalltalk simplifies Development Environment that provides cross-platform application development, so that you produce better compatibility across Windows 2000/XP/Server/Vista, platform-portable business solutions Linux, Mac OSX, and a variety of UNIX platforms. VisualWorks quickly delivers perfect multiplatform • on time, applications that you write once and deploy anywhere • under budget, in industries as diverse as semiconductor manufacturing • with minimum risk, and banking to health care. • for a big return on investment. • Web Velocity is Cincom’s new application development Smalltalk makes the hard things easy and the impossible system. Delivering radical innovation in the web possible. Backed by a pioneer of the software industry deployment of systems, Web Velocity brings the classic with 40 years of delivering advantages to business, power of the Smalltalk development environment to Cincom Systems, Inc. can demonstrate the factors that the browser. With Web Velocity, you can design, make a development language not just a productivity tool develop, and deploy your application from the browser. but a necessity. • Consulting Services from Cincom offers services for Innovators worldwide recognize that Cincom Smalltalk every need in training, application and functionality delivers elegant and powerful solutions to the most development, and staff augmentation. By utilizing our daunting business problems. Cincom Smalltalk beats services offerings, we’ll help you deliver perfect competitive environments with applications faster through proofs of concepts, • faster development times, exploratory modeling, customized training courses, • expansive libraries, mentoring, upgrade support, and product migrations. • agility, and • a reputation as being useful, valuable, and usable. Increased Productivity Simplicity In studies and comparisons,* Cincom Smalltalk is With only five reserved words and a syntax fitting on a consistently more productive than any other mainstream sheet of paper, Cincom Smalltalk is a consistent and language. For the same amount of functionality, projects compact language that helps programmers solve in Smalltalk require problems quicker and with one-third to one-half the code required of a C++/Java programmer. This greater • less than half the code, efficiency results in fewer defects. • about half the developers, • about half the chargeable hours, and Where success depends on timely new products that can • just 30-50% of the overall costs of Java or C++ projects. be rapidly scaled for significant market share, your operations must be committed to a technology that is up Easy to learn and to use, Cincom Smalltalk needs less to the challenge. Smalltalk is ideal for comprehending code to do more, delivering benefits throughout the life and solving a difficult problem. cycle. Smalltalk was carefully crafted for With Cincom Smalltalk, you save time and money at the start of a project, in implementing it, to run the system, • no waste, and in adapting it to changing conditions. Cincom • maximum expressiveness, Smalltalk users develop on their favorite platform and • speaking in the language of the problem space, then deploy to any other platform with no changes. • succinctness (getting a lot out with a little), and • faster results with less code and less maintenance. “VisualWorks Smalltalk is intuitive, and its development tools and environment are “Our expectations have been satisfied. ... second to none. Without it, we might still Cincom Smalltalk can be considered as the be creating a first pass at our control gateway to our mainframe business system framework.” applications.” Becky Cooper, Deputy Director of Control Systems, Nick Theofanidis, Manager, Adventa Control Technologies Databases and System Administration Group, SUISA * Notably, Peterson, Mark K. “Smalltalk in Semiconductor Test,” IBM Systems and Technology Group, On Demand Business, March 29, 2007 Pioneering and Portability Proven Technology Today’s competitive environment demands rapid deployment of applications across platforms. With a heritage rooted in the legendary PARC labs and now foremost in the latest development techniques, In every instance, Cincom Smalltalk delivers a true write- Cincom Smalltalk sets the standard for excellence and once, deploy-anywhere environment. Cincom Smalltalk radical innovation in new applications and web deployment. applications run on all major platforms without any modification to the Smalltalk code, including: Object-oriented technology transformed software development from a closed and subjective process to one • Windows 2000/XP/Server/Vista that is open, orderly, and logical. The ideas pioneered in • Mac OSX Smalltalk—encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, • Linux (x86, PPC, SPARC) object modeling and mapping, round-trip engineering, •AIX virtual machine technology, and more—have influenced • HP-UX what we take for granted today in computing. • Solaris Cincom Smalltalk was developed with one goal in mind You minimize risk, protect your development investment, —increasing productivity through an easy-to-learn and and respond to market demand when you can reliably easy-to-use language. Although a true object-oriented develop on one platform and deploy on another. programming language, Cincom Smalltalk is much more, because it also unites with a suite of productivity- enhancing developer tools, which are particularly important for moving beyond legacy programming. “Cincom Smalltalk’s object-oriented architecture enabled rapid development and provided us with the opportunity to “We believe we have a truly awesome continually expand the system through RAD environment. The key is that our component reuse.” development resources do not have to Peter deVries, Director of Advanced Technology, be Smalltalk experts.” Penn State University Dr. Colin Lewis, Vice-President, JPMorgan Cincom and Smalltalk Continued technological advancements with all Cincom acquires VisualWorks Smalltalk products Robust new-customer and CinMark partnership revenue growth begins Smalltalk development Smalltalk publicly Market growth and shakeout Cincom joint venture Cincom Smalltalk Smalltalk STAR Team launched: at Xerox PARC available as Smalltalk-80 with VMark takes form high market visibility 5 8 1970 1975 1980 19 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 Cincom SmalltalkTM Broad Application Flexibility Developer Enjoyment With characteristic succinctness and maximum Developers’ productivity in and preferences for Smalltalk expressiveness, Cincom Smalltalk helps you engage the make it the top selection. They also know they can problem to be solved and not the language, resulting in recycle and reuse parts of earlier system versions and less code and maintenance for faster results. thus reduce costs. Reusable components, prototyping, unfettered interface Developers enjoy the technology and do more with it, modification, and protocol adaptability let you quickly resulting in better employee morale and retention. enhance and improve products while maintaining optimal pricing and providing your customers with quick implementation. “Smalltalk and ObjectStudio are ideally suited to management problems and have enabled us to build a true small-business framework, which we can reutilize and tailor for each new customer context.” Serge Lehmann, Vice Director Research & Development, Prodware A software application built on Cincom Smalltalk won the 2008 Object-Oriented Programming Dynamic Full Source Code Customization Languages Shootout, held in Munich, Germany. Representing all the top dynamic languages, Extend your development environment to