Yahoo - Informix Revitalizes 4GL Application Development Tools
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1705CB04F00B09B39BD8A7FC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm a little confuse, because according with the category assigned to INFORMIX-4GL in the Products Life Cycle, it is a dead product in terms of development new features. Is Informix blind-searching the way to start up? It's too late!!! Informix, is now when you realize that there's a big market using INFORMIX-4GL waiting for a real solution for migrating to new environments (client/server, intranet)? Why, you didn't think like 4js did? Anyway, I'm still being a real Informixer! http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980506/informix_1.html --------------1705CB04F00B09B39BD8A7FC Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="informix_1.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="informix_1.html" Content-Base: "http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/980506/informi x_1.html" <html><base href="http://biz.yahoo.com/"><title>Yahoo - Informix Revitalizes 4GL Application Development Tools</title><center><map name=b><area shape=rect coords="0,0,210,57" href="http://quote.yahoo.com/"><area shape=rect coords="210,0,447,57" href="http://www.businesswire.com/"></map><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/bin/menu3"><img width=447 height=57 border=0 alt=" Business Wire " src="http://us.yimg.com/i/fi/bw32.gif"; usemap="#b" ismap></a><p> <p><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/M=14053.108886.1108858.6161/D=finance/P=m26vvdo40200/S=7811759:N/A=60146/?http://www.ktel.com/cgi-bin/jumpin.pl?redir=yahoo"><img width=468 height=60 src="http://us.yimg.com/a/kt/k_tel/ktel_banner.gif"; alt="Click Here For K-Tel International!" border=0></a><p> <p>[ <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/business/">Business</a>; | <a href="/reports/stocks.html">US Market</a> | <a href="/industry/">Industry</a> | <a href="/reports/ipo.html">IPO</a> | <a href="/snp/">S&P</a> | <a href="/reports/world.html">International</a> | <a href="/prnews/">PRNews</a> | <a href="/bw/">BizWire</a> | <a href="http://quote.yahoo.com/?u">Finance Home</a> ]</center><p><hr><b>Wednesday May 6, 7:01 am <small>Eastern Time</small></b><h3>Company Press Release</h3><h2>Informix Revitalizes 4GL Application Development Tools</h2><h3>Continued Commitment Addresses Global Deployment, Performance and Year 2000 Solutions</h3><!--bw|894463260--> <!-- TextStart --> <p> MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1998--Informix Corporation (NASDAQ:<a href="http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=ifmx&d=t">IFMX</a>; - <a href="/n/i/ifmx.html">news</a>), the leading provider of innovative database technology, today announced its newest release of the INFORMIX(R)-4GL Product Family. <p> This announcement reaffirms the company's commitment to Informix Value Added Resellers and Developers, by focusing on their needs and making the most of their 4GL application investments. <p> The INFORMIX-4GL Product Family, comprised of INFORMIX-4GL Rapid Development System, INFORMIX-4GL Interactive Debugger, and INFORMIX-4GL Compiler, is a comprehensive fourth-generation application development environment that provides power and flexibility without the need for third-generation languages like C or COBOL. <p> ``We're very committed to the 4GL Product Family,'' said Mike Saranga, senior vice president, product management and development, Informix. <p> ``We continue to experience strong market demand and see long term business viability for these tools, as evidenced by the success of our Tools Business Unit in this market. Informix is committed to the continued development of our 4GL product line, to increase the power and flexibility of 4GL, and to further support our customers and partners.'' <p> INFORMIX-4GL 7.2 delivers several new features requested by the Informix VAR and developer community. Developers can now deploy a single application to the world market, leveraging the 4GL Global Language Support (GLS) deployment platform. <p> DBCENTURY provides a fast and reliable solution to ``Year 2000'' (Y2K) risks, and a simple upgrade path for applications which were initially coded to support two digit year fields. Additionally, the new release provides improved performance, ensuring more responsive business applications. <p> An important benefit to any multinational organization or reseller is the introduction of full Global Language Support (GLS). GLS supports full localization of INFORMIX-4GL 7.2 applications, so they are now capable of handling the different languages, cultural conventions and code sets for Asian, European, Latin American and Middle Eastern countries. <p> GLS offers Informix developers the ability to develop, manage and deploy applications worldwide. <p> Another important new feature is support for DBCENTURY. While all Informix products are Year 2000 compliant, meaning that the use or occurrence of the dates on or after Jan. 1, 2000, will not adversely affect the performance of Informix products with respect to four-digit date dependent data, many users must fix applications which were written with two digit year date fields. <p> To provide an alternative to rewriting these applications, Informix has introduced DBCENTURY. This feature allows developers to choose a method for extending dates without the need to re-code their applications. DBCENTURY delivers a reliable solution for upgrading these applications, for a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time. <p> With year 2000 rapidly approaching, this feature has proven itself valuable to those customers who need a fast and reliable solution to address Y2K risks. <p> Another enhancement, delivered specifically to increase performance, is the inclusion of the latest client libraries. Whether it is to decrease query time, or maximize hardware performance and investment, INFORMIX-4GL 7.2 is the fastest release to date. <p> Peter Brereton, president of TECSYS Inc., a leading provider of software solutions for managing distribution operations commented, ``We've developed the TECSYS EliteSeries application with INFORMIX-4GL. It has proven to be a high performance development environment for building applications that support high volume sales order processing operations. <p> ``INFORMIX-4GL is an environment where new developers can become productive very quickly, whether they are maintaining an existing application or developing a new one. We are pleased with the Informix technology and look forward to our continued partnership with them as we move into the next century,'' Brereton added. <p> About Informix <p> Informix Corporation, the world's database technology leader, based on Menlo Park, 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 envi