Last year I blogged on FPL’s emergency response system called Trouble Call Management System (TCMS). TCMS is a Smalltalk system which uses Gemstone/S a Smalltalk based app server/OODMS . What is becoming very noteworthy is that these storms seem to be getting stronger and more frequent and now apparently they are starting much sooner in the season. The good news is that Gemstone/S just announced 64 bit support. This means that the highwater mark (total number of possible objects) has gone through the roof to an insane number. The same is happenning for the shared page cache threshold which implies that one can basically ram the entire database in memory. Currently, I believe that HP and Solaris are supported. TCMS last I checked was running on AIX. Unfortunately, I cannot find the press release with the details.