You have to love the irony here:

1) IBM drops Smalltalk, handing it to Instantiations:

www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/smalltalk/transition.html

2) Another part of IBM, focused on syndication technology, starts to realize that dynamic languages like Smalltalk are the wave of the future:

www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/09/09/The-Case-for-Dynamic-Languages