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Informix Software is the world's leading supplier of high-performance, parallel-processing database technology for open systems. In fact, our servers are the number one choice of computer hardware manufacturers for publishing Transaction Processing Council (TPC) benchmarks for UNIX-based systems. Our extensive product offerings include application development tools and database servers for creating client/server OLTP production applications, decision support systems and ad-hoc query interfaces, and connectivity software. Widely recognized as the technology leader in open systems database software and tools, Informix offers customers a unique blend of leading-edge products, services and partnerships. According to International Data Corporation, a leading market research firm, Informix ships more UNIX RDBMS licenses than any other RDBMS vendor in the world.
Founded: 1980
Employees: Over 2,900 Worldwide
Market Share: Worldwide UNIX Relational Database Servers: 34.7% (1995)
Major Market Sectors Served: Finance, Manufacturing, Retail, Telecommunications, Hospitality, Health Care, Oil & Gas, Media, Transportation, & Government
Headquarters: Menlo Park, California
Sales Offices: Worldwide
Revenue: $469 Million (1994)
CEO: Philip White
Common Stock: Informix (IFMX) stock is traded on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange.
Only Informix provides the most advanced server technology and application development tools available. As one of the fastest growing independent software vendors in the world, Informix offers dozens of database products across all open systems platforms, including more than 20 "flavors" of UNIX, Microsoft Windows and Windows NT, Novell NetWare, IBM OS/2, and Apple Macintosh. We are the sole source offering a complete dynamic enterprise solution with the NewEra development tools, and powerful INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server technology and its parallel processing capabilities.
OnLine XPS is the latest product to be based on Informix's parallel processing database technology, Dynamic Scalable Architecture (DSA). The product extends DSA to loosely-coupled or shared nothing computing architectures including clusters of symmetric multiprocessors (SMP) and massively parallel processors (MPP).
OnLine Dynamic Server™ is a high-performance, multithreaded, parallel database server that addresses the growing needs of managing larger, more complex business-critical databases. OnLine Dynamic Server's ability to handle extremely large volumes of data allows customers to implement applications such as data warehousing, and perform decision support queries in only seconds on any UNIX platform.
OnLine XPS and OnLine Dynamic Server's advanced parallel capabilities let users build data warehouse applications to meet end-user needs. With both products, companies can transport data from the mainframe into a more flexible, cost-effective, open systems environment--and take advantage of improved price/performance and enhanced scalability. By linking our powerful parallel processing server technology with technologies and services from other companies, Informix provides customers with a complete open systems-based data warehousing solution. Additional applications include: multimedia, imaging & workflow, mobile computing, electronic data interchange (EDI), and many more.
OnLine Workgroup Server, targeted at departmental and workgroup environments of 2 to 32 users, brings the power and proven database technology of Informix’s Dynamic Scalable Architecture to the low-end workgroup environment. The product combines new ease-of-use features for installation, configuration and database administration with the high-performance and scalability found in Informix’s OnLine Dynamic Server.
INFORMIX-NewEra is our next-generation client/server development tool for creating mission-critical, enterprisewide database applications. Combining the best of both the object-oriented and traditional application development worlds, NewEra enables customers to develop client/server applications quickly, easily and graphically, and supports entire enterprisewide client/server environments. This open, graphical, object-oriented development environment offers excellent scalability, productivity and extensibility.
First UNIX-based RDBMS
First SQL-based RDBMS for DOS
First UNIX multimedia RDBMS
First fourth-generation language for UNIX
First OLTP database architecture for UNIX
First RDBMS to meet U.S. government standards for secure databases
First UNIX RDBMS support for IBM's DRDA
First parallel-processing database architecture for open systems
First UNIX RDBMS to be used for TPC-C benchmarks
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