FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Contact: Mary Kroening       
+1-828-350-0350

Amzi! 4.0--Intelligent Components
for the Web and the World

April 2, 1997 - Stow MA-Amzi! inc. announces the 4.0 release of Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server. The major objectives of this release are to:

• Allow the execution of multiple Prolog engines for applications such as Web server-side applications, telephony systems, Java-based servers and database server components.
• Provide full support for Unicode character sets allowing the creation of Prolog components that can reason over and 'speak' any language.
• Expand the environments from which Amzi! can be readily used, especially for Internet and the Web.
• Allow the software and documentation to be downloaded directly from Internet in order to deliver updates and new features immediately to users around the world.

In support of these objectives, the Amzi! Logic Server (Prolog engine) has been redesigned as a native C++ application. This allows applications to create multiple instances of the Logic Server running in the same or separate threads. It also provides for seamless integration of Prolog's catch/throw mechanism to the catch/throw mechanisms in C++, Java and Delphi.

The Amzi! Prolog engine is now a native Unicode application like Java and NT 4.0. Prolog source code can be written in Unicode or ASCII, allowing predicates and variables as well as strings to be represented in the 16-bit Unicode character set.

Support for Internet and Web-based applications has been greatly expanded in 4.0 with the addition of these new components:

• The new CGI interface allows you to write server-side applications for the Web. This makes it possible to embed all manner of expert systems, advisors, problem solvers and intelligent components on Web pages. This interface consists of a C program and Prolog framework and library that provides a seamless interface between your Prolog script and the CGI and HTTP protocols.
• The new Java Class allows Prolog components to be embedded in Java programs and applets, including full-support for exception handling.
• The new Sockets Logic Server Extension (LSX) makes it easy to write clients and/or servers in Prolog that communicate with other Internet clients and servers for mail, FTP, news, HTML, etc.

To speed development, numerous enhancements have been made in the Interactive Developer's Environment (IDE), including comprehensive project support. Console versions of the command-line tools make it easy to build Amzi! Prolog components while compiling and linking the main application. And, the latest development environments from Borland (including their new C++ Builder) and Microsoft are also supported.

Current Amzi! subscribers (and new customers) can download the 4.0 release from our web site. All the documentation, plus the Prolog tutorial are provided in HTML format. Consult Amzi!'s web site, http://www.amzi.com, for upgrade pricing and new purchase information.

Amzi! inc. specializes in embeddable AI components, providing both products and consulting/customization services to its customers.

Amzi! is a registered trademark and Logic Server and Subscription Plus are trademarks of Amzi! inc.

Amzi! inc.
  47 Redwood Road
  Asheville, NC 28804 U.S.A.
+1-828-350-0350
www.amzi.com