There was a financial services company that created a stock transfer service in smalltalk in the mid to late 90's; apparently they had some folks who were very

There was a financial services company that created a stock transfer service in smalltalk in the mid to late 90's; apparently they had some folks who were very forward thinking. They used IBMs visual age products. The product had some initial success, landed a few customers. But ultimately languished and was shut down. I don't have information on what happened, failure was probably due to mismanagement more than technology. I was at the company after those events, and management was inept to say the least. So that's one data point.