Franz Inc. has announced a new release of Allegro CL. Version 9.0 brings “symmetric multi-processing capabilities to the industry’s leading Common Lisp based development environment. ‘Demand for faster, more intelligent, and scalable applications is increasing with the Big Data onslaught. Modern Lisp developers now have the best tool to scale their applications and deliver products to market on-time and on-budget,’ commented Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc.”

The article notes, “Allegro CL is the most powerful dynamic object-oriented development system available today, and is especially suited to enterprise-wide, complex application development. Complex applications with billions of objects are now made easy with Allegro CL v9.0. The complexity of today’s software applications and the explosion of data size are pervasive in all fields ranging from Life Sciences to Manufacturing to Financial Analytics.  Allegro CL 9.0 is the most effective system for developing and deploying applications to solve these complex problems in the real world.”

It continues, “New Key Features and updates in Allegro CL v9.0: (1) Symmetric Multiprocessing. (2) 820 Improvements and updates since the last release. (3) Major update to AllegroServe, Franz’s Lisp based webserver.  Automatic compression and inflation of files, chunking support, and new choices for security, including the TLS v1.0 (also called SSL v3.1) protocol for secure communications. (4) Enhanced Java interaction via the jLinker module.  Improved protocol, simpler API. (5) New installation for Mac 64-bit graphics utilities, simplified substantially.”

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