Well, I run a consulting firm and if I could make money from developing software on Pharo, Iâd be willing to join the Consortium as a Gold member. Iâd love to develop using Smalltalk. I do proof of concepts in Smalltalk frequently and deploy in other languages. I would think that a company using Smalltalk would be willing to pay thousands or ten thousands for long term support, depending on the application. I mean one seat of Jetbrainsâ development tools is $600-700 a year, and enterprise development isnât cheap. A reasonable sized MongoDB Atlas database cluster is, according to the website, somewhere in the area of $2500-3000 a month. The average job I do saves the company I work for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was doing jobs 30 years ago that weâre doing that. Maybe itâs more like millions. /*âââââââââââââââââ-*/ Sent from my iPhone https://boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/51616339056/sig.png See https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org
On Apr 12, 2019, at 01:25, Norbert Hartl <norbert@hartl.name> wrote:
So you earn money with pharo? Isnât that a bit risky if you donât have someone to ask if you have a critical problem? That is what you get when you pay into the consortium. Is it that you demand that from the mailing list and the people that work in their free time?
Norbert
Am 12.04.2019 um 03:06 schrieb john pfersich <jpfersich@gmail.com>:
+1 on the long term support idea. Changing an application every year to support a new version of Pharo is a nonstarter for most of my clients.
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On Apr 11, 2019, at 06:33, "jtuchel@objektfabrik.de" <jtuchel@objektfabrik.de> wrote:
+1 on the long term support and stability topic.