[wglb]

While I agree with your conclusion, the Smalltalk's demise no doubt had a lot to do with Sun's marketing people convincing doesn't match what I observed. I was at allstate at the time, and when the groundswell of attention paid by the rank and file was sufficiently overwhelming (in a positive way), that the PHBs had to say "chill. We need to investigate this" in true Gartner fashion. Later, it did get adapted, but there is a lot of .net there.