For Immediate Release

Contact:
Steve Sears
Product Marketing Manager
ssears@franz.com
510-452-2000 x.154

Franz, Inc. Announces Franz Allegro CL 7.0 with AI Built-in, All the Way Down^TM

Oakland, CA , October 23, 2004 Franz, Inc. today announced that it has shipped Allegro CL® 7.0, with a new inference engine, SOA web services, high-speed connections to Oracle™ and MySQL, HTTP web server and many other major improvements. It is a very significant upgrade to its cross-platform (14 platforms) application development environment. For building and deploying intelligent, flexible, scalable web applications very quickly, no other tool comes close to Allegro CL 7.0.

Using Allegro CL 7.0, developers can create programs ranging from high-performing e-commerce sites to sophisticated business intelligence applications. "As the demand for faster, more intelligent, and scalable applications increases, modern Lisp developers now have the best tool they need to get their products to market on-time and on-budget," said Fritz Kunze, CEO of Franz. That is why the wing design of Airbus' new Super Jumbo, the scheduler for the Hubble Telescope and Stanford's Biolingua Bioinformatics initiative all utilize Allegro CL as their development tool of choice.

Franz Inc., based in Oakland, California, is the leading vendor of dynamic object-oriented development tools featuring Allegro Common Lisp and CLOS. Founded in 1984 and privately held, Franz Inc. has demonstrated consistent growth and profitability since its inception. All founders remain actively involved with the company.