- Franz Inc.
Franz Inc. was founded in early 1984 as a vehicle to produce and sell
Macsyma . While that never developed into a business, Franz Inc. did sellFranz Lisp while working on their ownCommon Lisp implementation. Franz Lisp died out in the 80s as Common Lisp became more popular. Today, they sellAllegro Common Lisp , which is a direct descendant of the Common Lisp they developed in the mid-80s, and a series of products likeAllegroCache built on it.In late 2004, Franz began a development program focused on delivering scalable
RDF database technologies for theSemantic Web , also known asWeb 3.0 . The product, [http://www.allegrograph.com AllegroGraph] , is built on many of the technologies found in Allegro CL and AllegroCache and has become a major focus for the company. The current release of AllegroGraph v3.0 incorporates Geospatial, Temporal and Social Networking Analytics libraries as part of what the Company has termed itsActivity recognition package.AllegroGraph supports
SPARQL ,Jena (framework) ,Sesame (framework) ,Full Text Search ,RDFS ++, andProlog reasoning.External links
* [http://www.franz.com Franz's website]
* [http://www.franz.com/downloads Franz's Download Page]
* [http://www.franz.com/about/company.history.lhtml company history]
* [http://www.franz.com/products/allegrocache/ AllegroCache]
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