Franz Inc. Announces New Products, Showcases Hot Applications at Object World East.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1996--Franz Inc. today begins product demonstrations at Object World East, Booth 523 in the Hynes Convention Center The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center located in Boston's Back Bay has 193,000 square feet (0 m) of exhibit space and can accommodate up to four concurrent events. . Among the products to be shown are two significant new releases: Version 4.3 of Allegro CL(TM), the dynamic object-oriented development environment for Unix; and the company's new Allegro ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. (TM) product, which provides open database connectivity See ODBC. (standard, database) Open DataBase Connectivity - (ODBC) A standard for accessing different database systems. There are interfaces for Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL and the ODBC driver pack contains drivers for the Access, Paradox, dBase, Text, Excel and Btrieve interfaces for Allegro CL applications. Also featured at the Franz booth will be the company's popular 32-bit Windows version of Allegro CL. "Visitors to the Franz booth at Object World will see some important new releases in our Allegro line," says Fritz Kunze, President of Franz, "For the first time, Allegro CL developers will be able to harness the enhanced power of Allegro CL 4.3 on a wide range of Unix platforms, and access databases such as Oracle, Sybase, and others via the ODBC interface standard." Franz will also showcase leading-edge applications built with Allegro CL, such as dynamic web servers that offer custom-tailored web pages on demand, and complex solid modeling applications used for rapid prototyping and design of industrial products. Franz Inc. is the world's leading vendor of dynamic object-oriented development tools featuring CLOS CLOS - Common LISP Object System (Common Lisp Object System (language) Common LISP Object System - (CLOS) An object-oriented extension to Common LISP, based on generic functions, multiple inheritance, declarative method combination and a meta-object protocol. ), the only ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. standard object-oriented language. The Allegro family of Dynamic Objects tools is sold and supported through Franz's direct sales force and distribution partners in several countries. Franz's development products are used by Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, universities and research institutes worldwide. -0- Note to Editors: Allegro CL, Allegro Composer, and AllegroStore are registered trademarks and Allegro CLIM CLIM Climatic CLIM Common Lisp Interface Manager , Allegro ODBC and AllegroSolid are trademarks of Franz Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Patrick Corman Stephanie Bradley, 415/665-9072 or Patrick Corman, 415/326-9648 |
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