"Bear in mind that the article was written by a product evangelist for a Smalltalk vendor." Indeed. From the post, "They have two good Smalltalkers with a cou

"Bear in mind that the article was written by a product evangelist for a Smalltalk vendor." Indeed. From the post, "They have two good Smalltalkers with a couple of laptops. They use available WiFi and open source code, and they deploy on cheap, hosted Linux boxes. [ed. I'll interject at this point - you could use commercial software all the way down, like Cincom Smalltalk, and not pay a dime until large amounts of revenue arrives]." and then pay a percentage of your annual revenue forever (http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=var http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?con...). I believe Franz Lisp works on this model as well.