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February 2008
Racer Systems sponsors the 21st International Workshop on Description Logics which is held in Dresden, Germany this May.
June 2007
We attended the 2007 OWLED workshop and presented latest research results. E.g., design principles of our new Ontology Browsing and Inspection Tool named RacerPorter. The colleagues at the TUHH talked about optimization of instance retrieval systems.
May 2007
Franz Inc. participated as an exhibitor the Semantic Technology Conference 2007 in San Jose, CA, USA. They also showed RacerPro together with their RDF triple store AllegroGraph.
March 2007
Meet us at this years International Lisp Conference 2007 which will be held in Cambridge, UK from April 1-4, 2007.
March 2006
The people at STS Group of the TUHH demonstrate the results of their research work which is also based on RacerPro. Meet them during CeBIT 2006 on March 9 to 15 in exhibition hall 9, booth E09.
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Franz Inc. participated as an exhibitor the Semantic Technology Conference 2006 in San Jose, CA, USA. They also showed RacerPro.
January 2006
RacerManager, a development of Atila Kaya and others at the STS Group of the TUHH, is released and offers OWL-QL support for RacerPro following a web services oriented approach. Also load balancing with more than one RacerPro server can be implemented using this native tool for RacerPro.
December 2005
RacerPro version 1.9.0 released.
October 2005
Racer Systems participated the Semantic Web Days congress and exhibition which was held for the first time this year. About a hundred attendees crowded together to get an update on the latest developments in the area of knowledge representation and semantics-based information architecture and to discuss consequences as well as options for this innovative technology in economy. This event demonstrated the importance of the semantic-driven computing and of RacerPro as a core engine for processing OWL and RDF knowledge bases. Our demonstration focusses the deployment of RacerPro as an inference server to third-party applications. Therefore we showcased a Geographic Information System which utilizes RacerPro as a back-end server which holds the classified area information and individual map objects to process the query commands sent by the user front end application which graphically displays the results.
July 2005
RacerPro version 1.8.1 released.
June 2005
Racer Systems proudly releases the first commercial version 1.8.0 of RacerPro.
May 2005
Franz Inc., the Oakland, California (USA) based leading vendor of dynamic object-oriented development tools, and Racer Systems signed a mutual, long-term distribution agreement that enables each party to deliver complete knowledge-base and application development systems to customers. While Franz Inc. will be an exclusive distributor of the RacerPro system in the US and Canada as well as Australia, Japan, India, China, and other Asian countries, Racer Systems is designated to be the distributor for the Allegro Common Lisp development environment and other products of Franz Inc. in Europe.
April 2005
Racer Systems is happy to announce the agreement to a partnership with Halcom SpA, Italia. Halcom SpA will offer consulting and services in the Semantic Web domain to Italian customers.
January 2005
Racer Systems is a cooperating partner and sustaining member of the HiTec e.V (Hamburger Informatik Technologie-Center e.V.).
September 2004
Google ranks Racer on third place in category Knowledge representation software, Ontologies.