Having investigated the virtual appliance (GLASS) http://seaside.gemstone.com/ for a potential upcoming project...
It is in shocking state with regard to maintenance duties...
 
We will be trying a native install with Pharo, of course.
 
The question is whether anyone is interested in collaborating with producing some decent GUI tools for doing general administration tasks (backups, recovery, archival etc.)?
 
 A lot of scope for taking the pain out of maintaining such an environment...

Regards, Gary