The Smalltalk Industry Council's core members are Cincom, GemStone Systems, Instantiations and Knowledge Systems Corporation

Allen B. Davis – Smalltalk Industry Council:

"Smalltalk is by far the best programming language available. The Family of C programming languages has been evolving toward Smalltalk-like functionality for the past 25 years. Java is the most Smalltalk-like of the C family, removing the direct pointer manipulation of C++ and adding fully integrated garbage collection. Smalltalk provides a simpler syntax, consistency between class and instance behavior, much higher productivity and easier maintainability. This makes it the logical next choice for current Java developers and the logical choice for businesses interested in reducing their total cost of ownership for software systems. Smalltalk is well supported by many vendors including Cincom, IBM and Instantiations”

STIC is a nonprofit trade association whose goal is to promote the awareness of and increase demand for Smalltalk by:

• Promoting Smalltalk as the programming language of choice for application development in the business world.
• Listening and responding to the needs of the Smalltalk business community.
• Creating a focal point to distribute the latest information on Smalltalk.
• Encouraging the participation of all segments of the Smalltalk industry including vendors, service providers, and users.
• Encouraging additional standards for Smalltalk.