Amzi!News, April 2009

Amzi! 8 is here!

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New Instituion-Wide Licensing

Amzi! 8 introduces institution-wide licensing. For one annual fee, anyone in the institution can download and activate the full Professional Edition of Amzi! Prolog + Logic Server. http://www.amzi.com/download

For Commercial Institutions:

Gain the competitive advantage of high performance, easily maintained, mission critical logic-based applications such as pricing and order configuration. (see PRICING below.)
Have unlimited access to a professional integrated development environment (Eclipse) for integrating logic components with .NET, Java, C++, Delphi, VB...
Have unlimited royalty-free deployment of high performance server-based applications.

For Educational Institutions:

Give students unlimited access for projects small and large.
Provide valuable real world experience with a professional integrated development environment (Eclipse) while learning and using Prolog.
Teach with the powerful, visual, source code debugger, the absolute best tool for learning and understanding Prolog back-tracking execution and logical variable binding/unbinding.
Allow the building of integrated multi-language projects, showing the advantages of using the right tool for the right job.
Have access to all the Amzi! tutorials, samples and other educational resources.

Individual Licensing for the Professional, Developer, and Personal editions is also available as before.

The free, limited feature, version of Amzi! is, as before, still available in 30 trial periods that can be extended as necessary.

Applications - Pricing Pricing Pricing

Pricing is often one of the most difficult to implement and maintain applications in an organization. That's because it is specified as a collection of logical rules that are difficult to implement using conventional tools, and more difficult to maintain in the face of changing market conditions.

Pricing is one of the applications that Prolog does best. It's perfectly suited to Prolog's crisp, logical, goal seeking rules.

It's no wonder that many of the commercial applications of Prolog are precisely to implement pricing modules that:

handle complex marketing and product configuration constraints,
are maintained by the pricing experts and not programmers, and
are easily updated and deployed with exceptional reliability.

How are the myriad configuration and pricing options of replacement windows and doors handled? Prolog.

How do some of the largest Internet based travel planning sites implement pricing and travel planning? Prolog.

How do some of the largest banks implement mortgage selection and pricing modules? Prolog.

Happy Logic Programming,
Dennis