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VA Smalltalk User,</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:times new
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font-size:14px"> There has been so
much going on at Instantiations since
the v9.0 release of VA Smalltalk and
we've been looking forward to giving
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<hr><span style="font-size:14px"><span
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roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif"><strong>VA
Smalltalk 9.0 - Rock Solid
Stability!</strong></span></span><br>
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Last September we launched the
v9.0 release of VA Smalltalk which
introduced our new 32 & 64-bit
virtual machines. Since that time we
have been delighted to hear how
smoothly our customers are
transitioning their production
systems to 64-bit technology. The <span
style="background-color:#FFFF00">stability
of our modernized virtual machines
since launch has proven to be
fantastic!</span> Instantiations
has always taken great care and
pride in providing compatible and
stable software to help protect our
customers' investments as they move
their systems forward. For more
information, download the v9.0 data
sheet by clicking <a
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Instantiations Staff Member<br>
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</span></strong></span></font><span
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roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif"><span
style="font-size:14px">We are very
pleased to announce that
well-known Smalltalker Mariano
Martinez Peck has joined the VA
Smalltalk engineering team as a
Senior Software Engineer on
January 1, 2018. Mariano holds a
PhD in Computer Science from
RMOD-INRIA and the École Des Mines
de Douai in France. His academic
research has been published across
various international journals and
he has been developing commercial
software for more than ten years
in various industries such as
financial services, simulations,
retail and logistics. In his new
role at Instantiations, Mariano
will be a key contributor in the
continued development and
modernization of VA Smalltalk and
will be involved in all aspects of
product development and
architecture.</span></span><br>
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<p><strong style="font-family:times new
roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif; font-size:14px">New Release of VA
Smalltalk Coming This Summer</strong></p>
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roman,times,baskerville,georgia,serif">
Our next release of VA Smalltalk
(v9.1) is shaping up to be one of
the largest feature releases
Instantiations has ever done.
Additionally, will be releasing a
new version of VAST on Linux which
will be utilizing our
state-of-the-art 32 & 64-bit
virtual machines. The VAST
engineering team has been working
incredibly hard and plans to provide
VA Smalltalk v9.1 this summer. When
v9.1 is released, we will send out
another announcement to let you
know. <em><span
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if you have a current support
agreement the upgrade is free!</span>
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is a pleasure to update you with
all the exciting news that is
happening at Instantiations and
thank you again for your continued
support.</span></span><br>
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<strong style="font-family:times new
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upward!</em></strong></p>
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