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Harlequin | |
Company type | Private |
Industry | |
Predecessor | None |
Founded | 1987Cambridge, East of England, England | in
Founder | Jo Marks |
Defunct | 1999 |
Fate | Acquired by Global Graphics |
Successors |
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Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 8 (1998) |
Areas served | |
Key people | Jo Marks |
Owner | Jo Marks |
Number of employees | 300 (1998) |
Harlequin was a technology company based in Cambridge, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It specialized in application software for printing, graphics, law enforcement, artificial intelligence, and in implementations of programming languages. Harlequin employees sometimes referred to themselves as "The 'Late Binding' company" and the firm eventually evolved into a think tank for advanced technologies.
After Global Graphics[1] purchased Harlequin, they spun off the application groups for Lisp, artificial intelligence (AI), and law enforcement as Xanalys,[2] and they spun off the Harlequin Dylan team as Functional Objects. Global Graphics acquired Harlequin mainly for the PostScript technologies, and it still continues to develop and market them under the Harlequin name.