Software spinoff from Xerox PARC, founded to commercialize the Smalltalk

Smalltalk

Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis." It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist...

 programming language and related technology.

Timeline of ParcPlace Systems

1989 - Founded by Adele Goldberg

Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)

Adele Goldberg is a computer scientist who participated in the development of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, in the 1970s.Goldberg began working at PARC in 1973, and...

 and others from PARC

1990 - Released Smalltalk 2.5 system on Unix, Windows, and Macintosh systems

1991 - Released VisualWorks

VisualWorks

VisualWorks is a cross-platform implementation of the Smalltalk language. It is implemented as a development system based on "images", which are dynamic collections of software objects, each contained in a system image....

, which was a rewrite of the graphics and windowing system from the 2.5 release

1994 - Became publicly traded company

1995 - Merged with Digitalk to become ParcPlace-Digitalk

1997 - Changed name to ObjectShare

1999 - Business assets sold to Cincom

Cincom

Cincom Systems is a privately held, multinational, computer technology corporation founded in 1968 by Tom Nies, Tom Richley and Claude Bogardus....

, who still sells Smalltalk system today

External links

• Cincom's history with Smalltalk