Smalltalk was started to be adopted at the enterprise level when Sun unleashed Java into the world.<p>I used Smalltalk&#x2F;V at the university around 1995, and since my focus was programming languages, started devouring all the Xerox PARC books right away.<p>IBM used to sell VisualAge for Smalltalk, which was reborn as Eclipse. To this day, Eclipse still has a Smalltalk like class navigation when you switch to &quot;Java Browser&quot; perspective.<p>The first commercial collections for Java in the late 90&#x27;s, tended to either be influenced by STL&#x27;s design or Smalltalk&#x27;s.<p>The majority of Smalltalk vendors ended up switching to Java.<p>It didn&#x27;t help that Sun brought in the startup that was trying to improve Smalltalk performance, to create Hotspot instead.