Informix Extends Transaction Processing Options for Users On IBM Middleware Platform

Business Wire, July 24, 1998

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 1998--

Combination of Informix Dynamic Server and IBM TXSeries Lets OLTP

and Data Warehousing Customers Easily Manage Business

Transactions Across a Distributed Enterprise

Informix Corp. (NASDAQ:IFMX), the technology leader in enterprise database-powered solutions, today announced an agreement with IBM that allows customers to more easily define and manage high-performance transaction processing applications in the distributed enterprise. The agreement was revealed at the annual Informix(R) Worldwide User Conference held this week in Seattle.

With the new certification of Informix Dynamic Server on IBM's TXSeries, customers can develop mission-critical business systems with assurance across relational and non-relational data resources, such as message queues and legacy applications. Moreover, the ability to interoperate across multiple platforms helps customers further leverage the investments in existing IT resources.

The announcement demonstrates Informix's ongoing commitment in meeting the needs of OLTP and data warehousing customers with high-performance, database offerings that provide enterprise scalability, full UNIX and WindowsNT support, and superior price and performance.

With Informix middleware solutions such as the IBM certification, customers can fully integrate critical transaction processing, and in doing so, they can make more informed business decisions that can improve competitive advantage.

"IBM's TXSeries is an integrated and highly adaptable package of transaction-processing technologies," said Steve Weick, vice president, research and development at Informix.

"IBM's certification assures Informix Dynamic Server users industry-leading performance on this powerful transaction middleware, offering seamless new ways to link their IT infrastructures, from business-critical data warehousing to online transaction processing."

"TXSeries is playing an increasing role in managing the distributed transaction environment, especially for e-business and Web-based transactions," said William J. Reedy, vice president of Marketing, IBM's Transaction Systems. "We are delighted that Informix Dynamic Server is using TX Series for mission critical applications."

About Informix Dynamic Server

Informix Dynamic Server is the industry's only completely integrated, fully optimized, parallel-everywhere database server designed explicitly to help transform a company's information resources into a powerful force for business innovation.

Combining breakthrough performance and unmatched scalability with infinite, user-defined extensibility, Informix Dynamic Server stands alone. It is the only enterprise-class, easily customizable database architecture that answers the growing demand from companies seeking a single database engine that features reliability, high performance, scalability, and the ability to manage all kinds of data.

About IBM TXSeries

TXSeries, developed by IBM's Transarc subsidiary, is middleware to support and simplify transactional connections across increasingly diverse and complex networks. In addition to offering secure, cross-enterprise integration, TXSeries delivers on the scalability, availability, integrity, longevity, and security features necessary for large-scale transaction processing.

TXSeries offers a Web server, network connectivity gateways, and an integrated infrastructure that support the leading Web-based technologies, enabling customers to enhance and grow their businesses and to adapt their systems for e-business.

TXSeries is available on IBM AIX, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows NT, and Sun Solaris and is distributed to end users through the world-wide IBM Transarc Software sales organization, and through a network of international network of international resellers and OEMs.

About Informix

Informix Corp., the world's database technology leader, based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides innovative database products that assist the world's major corporations to attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing applications.

Informix's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of major information technology solution areas including data warehousing, online transaction processing (OLTP), and Web/content management. For more information, visit Informix's Web site at http://www.informix.com.

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