Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!well!jjacobs
From: jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Lisp,ADA,Flames
Message-ID: <5129@well.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 04:58:12 GMT
Reply-To: jjacobs@well.UUCP (Jeffrey Jacobs)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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n 5084@well.UUCP, yours truly writes:

>There are only two CL vendors selling CL implementations for multiple standard
>architectures, Lucid and Franz. 

WRONG!  There are three CL vendors; IBUKI markets and supports a
commercial, enhanced version of Kyoto Common Lisp.  (And of course I
also left Kyoto out as a university developed Common Lisp).

>Out of the three mentioned above, only Franz is profitable...

IBUKI says they are profitable; given their original development costs,
I should hope so!  The number of units sold is on a par with Franz and
Lucid.

It should be pointed out that IBUKI requires a back end C compiler to get
native code.

It should also be pointed out that it pays to advertise; how else are people
going to know about your product :-)?

 Jeffrey M. Jacobs
 CONSART Systems Inc.
 Technical and Managerial Consultants
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