For Immediate Release

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

Franz, Inc. Announces Franz Allegro CL 8.0 with AllegroCache, Persistent AI Built-in, All the Way Down^TM

Oakland, CA , January 2, 2006: Franz, Inc. today announced shipping of Allegro CLΠ8.0, with AllegroCache, its new highly scalable and super fast object database, an IDE for the Linux platform (identical to its Windows IDE), IPv6, two new 64-bit platforms (Mac OS X and Solaris Opteron/AMD64) and many other major improvements. AllegroCache provides 64-bit real-time data caching on the application memory to achieve very high transaction throughput by applications over as large a data set as necessary, while maintaining ACID compliance.

Allegro CL 8.0 is a very significant upgrade to its cross-platform (17 platforms) application development environment. For building and deploying intelligent, flexible, scalable and persistent web applications, no other tool comes close to Allegro CL 8.0.

Using Allegro CL 8.0, 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 the Department of Defense's NSA all utilize Allegro CL as their development tool of choice.

Franz Inc., (http://franz.com) based in Oakland, California, is the leading vendor of dynamic object-oriented development tools and object databases, featuring Allegro CL/CLOS, AllegroCache and AllegroGraph. Founded in 1984 and privately held, Franz Inc. has been serving customers worldwide with industry-leading technologies since its inception.

To arrange a personal briefing about Allegro CL and AllegroCache, contact Steve Sears at +1(510) 452-2000, extension 154 or email ssears@franz.com.

For more information about all Franz Inc. products and services, call (888)-CLOS NOW or +1-510-452-2000, email info@franz.com, or visit our web site at http://franz.com. Allegro CL is a registered trademark of Franz Inc. Other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.