STIC Board Members

The Smalltalk Industry Council Board Members include:

  • Georg Heeg, Executive Director STIC
  • Bob Cherniak, Treasurer STIC

Cincom is the leading provider of Smalltalk in the world.  Cincom acquired Enfin/ObjectStudio Smalltalk in 1995 and VisualWorks Smalltalk in 1999 and developed and deployed WebVelocity in 2008.  Since acquiring Smalltalk, Cincom has seen a lot of growth within this business division and just completed the 11th profitable year with Cincom Smalltalk.  Cincom Smalltalk covers a wide range of industries including manufacturing, telecommunications, finance, transportation and many other industries with a need for productivity, flexibility, scalability and powerful tools for business growth.

  • For more information about Cincom Smalltalk, click here.

Instantiations is a recognized industry leader in the area of Smalltalk technology, tools and services, with its VA Smalltalk™ product line. Based in Portland, Oregon with development facilities in Raleigh, North Carolina, Instantiations was first founded by a team of internationally-recognized pioneers in Smalltalk and component-software technology.  Instantiations and its predecessor companies have partnered with IBM to advance and advocate for Smalltalk for well over two decades. Since 2005, Instantiations has led the development and support of VA Smalltalk, continuing to modernize and enhance the product line, as well as offer world class support.  Products include VA Smalltalk, which is 100% IBM VisualAge® Smalltalk compatible and has thousands of active users worldwide, as well as WindowBuilder Pro for Smalltalk.

  • For more information about Instantiations and VA Smalltalk, click here.

GemStone Systems is an enterprise software company that has pioneered the adoption of several enterprise infrastructure technologies through its rich history. GemStone’s products continue to be used by over 200 large enterprise customers in mission-critical environments in critical enterprise-wide deployments in industries such as financial services, the Federal Government, transportation, telecommunications and energy.

  • For more information about Gemstone, click here.