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When Java was released in '95 it replaces Smalltalk in the Enterprises (mainly banks). And during this decade Smalltalk was down to little or no usage till usef

• protomyth 16y ago
  In order to truly replace Java, any language really, really needs to think about the ecosystem around the language. Smalltalk vendors really do not have a good deployment strategy, certainly nothing as comprehensive as Java. The other problem is that Smalltalk is pretty alien to a Java programmer (image vs. text, block based control flow vs. traditional control flow). Garnett and Forester's recommendations might be key. Although, I still would argue the premise and say most of these institutions know Oracle and understand dealing with them. I don't see people giving up their Oracle databases and having bundled, recommended Java might make Java more of a lock.