PRESS - INFORMIX ANNOUNCES 22 PARTNER TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES TO SUPPORT APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WITH INFORMIX-NEWERA

INFORMIX ANNOUNCES 22 PARTNER TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES TO SUPPORT APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT WITH INFORMIX-NEWERA New Class Libraries Extend Functionality For Imaging, Multimedia, Business Graphics Multiple Partners Provide Integration and Consulting Services, CASE and Configuration Management To Enhance Development SAN JOSE, Calif. (July 18, 1995) -- Informix Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:IFMX), the leader in parallel database technology, today announced at the company's Worldwide User Conference that 22 Informix partners will provide support for INFORMIX(R)-NewEra(TM) in a wide range of technology areas, such as class library integration, consulting, CASE and configuration management. New class libraries from industry leaders such as Lenel Systems, and Autodesk, Inc., further expand the functionality of Informix's state-of-the-art, client/server, object-oriented application development environment in the areas of imaging, multimedia, and business graphics. "Our partners are committed to working with us to provide leading-edge mission-critical, client/server application development tools to our users," said Steve Sommer, vice president of marketing for Informix. "They understand that our customers' ability to implement new applications quickly and easily in increasingly complex enterprise computing environments is essential to keeping pace in today's ultra-competitive business environments." INFORMIX-NewEra partners are part of Informix's InSync Partner Program, designed to support third-party developers, in the integration, support, and maintenance of their products to extend the functionality of NewEra. In the year since NewEra first began shipping with 10 charter partners, the number of NewEra partners has continued to grow with leading software providers in every field. Customers will be able to see product demonstrations and learn more about the services NewEra partners provide at the Informix User Conference. "There has not been a complete model-to-code, object-oriented development environment available to corporate developers until now," said Mory Bahar, vice president of marketing for Cadre Technologies, a leading CASE provider. "Informix's state-of-the-art solution for client/server environments, NewEra, combined with Cadre's industry leading object-oriented modeling capabilities, represents an excellent answer to today's complex, team-oriented, distributed application development challenge." "Because of Informix's commitment to open architecture, INFORMIX-NewEra was chosen by Lenel Systems as the development environment to extend object-oriented imaging and multimedia capabilities to the client/server community with Lenel's MediaDeveloper NE C++ class libraries for NewEra," added Elena Prokupets, president and CEO of Lenel Systems International. INFORMIX-NewEra partners will be providing support in the following technology areas: Class Library Providers - Autodesk, Inc. (Alameda, CA) HOOPS Graphics Library (business graphics) - Excalibur Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, CA) Excalibur TRL Text Retrieval Library - ILOG, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) ILOG RULES (C++ rule-based programming) - Intelligent Objects Corp. (Cartersville, GA) SQL Objects (C++ database access) - Lenel Systems International, Inc. (Fairport, NY) MediaDeveloper NE (object-oriented multimedia class libraries) - Network Imaging Corporation (Herndon, VA) 1View:Object Manager (distributed object management) - Optical Technology Group, Inc. (Bethesda, MD) ApplicationExtender (Image and object management), ObjectUtilities (image and document processing, CAPI and OLE 2 automation - TMS., Inc (Stillwater, OK) ViewDirector/NewEra 1.1 (image management) CASE - Cadre Technologies, Inc. (Providence RI) ObjectTeam (CASE tools) - LBMS (Houston, TX> Systems Engineer, Process Engineer (CASE tools) Configuration Management - INTERSOLV, Inc. (Beaverton, OR) PVCS Version Manager (software configuration management) - Novadigm (Mahwah, NJ) Enterprise Desktop Manager (distributed software management) Consulting and Integration Services - InfoSoft, Inc. (Cupertino, CA) client/server applications consulting - Innovative Information Systems, Inc. (Norwood, Mass) systems integration and consulting - NexGen SI (Irvine, CA) consulting, integration services - Real X, Inc. (Los Altos, CA) rapid application development, consulting, integration services - Sierra Toolworks (Incline Village, NV) software development and consulting services Report Writer - MITI (Long Beach, CA) SQR3 Workbench (report writer) Testing Tools - Mercury Interactive Corp. (Sunnyvale, CA) WinRunner, XRunner (automated testing) - Performix, Inc. (McLean, VA) EMPOWER (load testing tools) - SQA , Inc. (Woburn, MA) SQA Enterprise TestSuite (Windows client/server testing) - Segue Software (Newton Centre, MA) QA Partner, QA Planner (Cross platform automated testing) About Class Libraries Class libraries are a key feature of the NewEra environment and provide highly modular, reusable application components that enable application developers to incorporate complex business rules into an application. For example, accounting and inventory management applications can benefit from class libraries by integrating a broad range of specific functionality, such as database connectivity or document imaging functions. Class libraries let developers add new functionality into existing applications easily, without having to code from scratch, overhaul the application or rewrite legacy code. Instead, they can simply plug a class library into their modular application architecture and the new functionality is ready to implement. Class libraries are the primary building blocks of any NewEra application and can be built by third parties, Informix or the application developer. Availability Availability and pricing of NewEra third-party class libraries, tools and services will be determined by each vendor and provided independently of Informix. About INFORMIX-NewEra INFORMIX-NewEra is Informix's object-oriented client server application development environment for enterprise computing. NewEra features a powerful and flexible database application language, productive visual programming tools, support for team-oriented development, reusable class libraries, and flexible application deployment, all within a client/server-ready package that supports open connectivity to Informix and non-Informix relational databases. INFORMIX-NewEra 2.0, announced today at Informix's User Conference, also offers application partitioning. (Editors note: Please see announcement: Informix Announces Informix-NewEra Version 2.0.) About Informix Informix Software is the leading supplier of high performance, parallel- processing database technology for open systems. The company's database servers are the number one choice of computer hardware manufacturers for publishing Transaction Processing Council (TPC)