History
1996 : Alchemy was founded in March and first began with the distribution of the Phrasea products (1.3 version). At the time, the company had one and only employee.
The solution works under Power PCs 604 (120Mhz with SCSI 9G° hard disks).
The Internet access is done by then with ISDN lines at 64Ko.
Digital Photography is just beginning. The market’s not ready yet.
1997-1998 : Apple suffers a major crisis; Phrasea manages to set up its applications to work under Windows.
1999-2000 : The major part of the stock of “B&L Parenthèses” is acquired and becomes Phrasea Software.
2001 : Alchemy launches the hosting platform « Phraseanet.com ».
2002 : Alchemy starts a new strategy with the development of a brand new solution under the name of ‘Project IV’.
2003-2004 : Development of Project IV.
2005 : Alchemy launches "Phraseanet IV" in April, which is the fourth generation of applications of the Phrasea range and uses standard technologies only (MySQL, PHP, XML...).
2006 : One year only after Phraseanet IV is released, Alchemy has set up more than 50 solutions.
The solution uses standard web servers & technologies.
Digital Photography has now become a major stake in the computer market.
2007 : Special Offer dedicated to City Halls, "PhotoMairie"
2007 - 2008 : Phraseanet IV 2.1 Release in September, at the Apple Expo Paris.
2008 : Offer dedicated to Photographers : Professional Websites from 40€ a month.
2010 : Release of Phraseanet v3.0 at the Linux Solutions Exhibition in Paris, March 16-18, 2010. Phraseanet is now Open Source.
