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RE: Believing in what you sell...
Kelly, I would be interested if you or someone else at Franz has
anything to say about the current thread concerning MP support for your
ACL product.
Mike Harper
Alcoa Laboratories
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>From: Kelly Murray[SMTP:kem@franz.com]
>Sent: Saturday, February 15, 1997 9:31 AM
>To: John C. Mallery
>Cc: Simon Brooke; www-cl@ai.mit.edu
>Subject: Re: Believing in what you sell...
>
>
>> Franz doesn't run the server because their engineers claim they
>> can't understand it.
>> The trot around the world explaining this themselves (!).
>> Perhaps their development tools
>> are not so good or their engineers not so clever.
>> Who knows? One of the modern mysteries.
>
>This Franz engineer knows the solution to the mystery ;)
>
>I have studied CL-HTTP quite a bit and understand it enough to have
>incorporated our AllegroStore CLOS object database system into it, and
>also developed a timecard application which ran internally within Franz.
>This CL-HTTP timecard app was used daily by Franz employees
>until recently.
>
>The timecard app is now running under a new, entirely different Web
>server which I developed in Lisp for Franz.
>This server, which we are calling Charlotte, focuses
>on simplifying the task of creating and managing a website. As such, it
>has a different purpose and a different target user base than CL-HTTP.
>
>Charlotte has been running the public Franz website off and on for 6-8
>months while I develop and test it. It will be up on a newly installed
>host machine next week. I can't give you further details on Charlotte at
>this time, but we'll be making a formal public announcement about it
>on our website fairly soon.
>
>Regards,
>
>Kelly Murray kem@franz.com
>
>P.S. In regards to TopCL, the parallel CL I developed,
>and my old company Top Level, Inc,
>the company ceased operations about 5 years ago.
>
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