Franz Tech Corner News: Support for SSL X.509 certificates

The Franz Tech Corner, April 9, 2007

In this issue:

1. Support for SSL X.509 certificates
2. Allegro CL 8.1 to enter beta test
3. Free Web Seminar: Understanding Web 3.0 Database Technology
4. Join Franz, Inc. at SemTech 2007 and get $200 off!
5. 4th European Lisp Workshop, July 30
6. Paul Graham's On Lisp, Japanese translation published
7. Training Schedule

1. Support for SSL X.509 certificates

An update released to SSL (Secure Socket Layer) sockets enhances this
facility to provide support for X.509 certificates. You can now:

* Do peer certificate verification
* Supply a certificate on the client side
* Inspect some fields of the peer certificate

For more details:
http://franz.com/support/tech_corner/#sslcert-040407

2. Allegro CL 8.1 to enter beta test

The current schedule is to offer the beta test version of Allegro CL
8.1 to customers at the end of this month. If you are not a current
ACL customer and have something interesting you would like to test on
ACL 8.1 beta, please send me a description of your application.

Mail to: steve.sears@franz.com

3. Free Web Seminar: Understanding Web 3.0 Database Technology

Wednesday, April 11, 10:00 - 11:30 am Pacific.

The Web is entering a new phase of technological evolution. Attend our
free seminar to learn more about the database technologies underlying
the future of the Internet. Don't miss this opportunity to better
understand how to approach large scale business problems using
Semantic Technologies.

Space is limited, so please R.S.V.P. to info@franz.com as soon as
possible.

For more details:
http://franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/semantic_technologies_v2.lhtml

4. Join Franz, Inc. at SemTech 2007 and get $200 off!

The Semantic Technology Conference will take place 20-24 May, 2007,
and Franz will be there exhibiting the new AllegroGraph version 2.0!
Get $200 off your registration fees when you register through our
site. Register by April 24 and receive an additional Early-Bird
discount!

We will be giving two talks and conducting one poster session there:

- Working with SPARQL: Large datasets, fast queries - what you need to
know. Richard Newman, Consultant, Franz, Inc.

- Rebeca, A Real-Time RDF Triple Event Condition Action Paradigm with
Dependency Tracking. Steven Haflich, Senior Software Engineer, Franz,
Inc.

- AllegroGraph: A highly scalable graph database for real-time BI and
Business Analytics. Jans Aasman, Director of Engineering, Franz, Inc.

For more details on the talks and registration information:

http://franz.com/services/conferences_seminars/Franz_SemTech-2007.lhtml

5. 4th European Lisp Workshop, July 30

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| 4th European Lisp Workshop |
| July 30 - Berlin, Germany - co-located with ECOOP 2007 |
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Important Dates
Submission deadline (papers & breakout groups): May 13, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2007
ECOOP early registration deadline: June 15, 2007

For more information visit http://lisp-ecoop07.bknr.net/
Contact: Pascal Costanza, pc@p-cos.net

6. Paul Graham's On Lisp, Japanese translation published

Paul's On Lisp has been translated to Japanese by Kai Noda, and
published by Ohmsha, Ltd.

http://ssl.ohmsha.co.jp/cgi-bin/menu.cgi?ISBN=978-4-274-06637-5

7. Training Schedule

Allegro CL Certification Program - Basic and Intermediate courses
available. Next 3-day sessions:

- Basic, May 2, 9 and 16
- Intermediate, June 6, 13 and 20

Ask us about previously recorded programs that are available if you
are unable to attend the live course.

http://franz.com/services/classes

Make the most of your Allegro CL application by utilizing our
consulting services,

http://franz.com/services/consulting/

Lisp Jobs - http://lispjobs.wordpress.com/

For more information about other Franz products and services, please
contact your product application manager or email sales@franz.com.