PRESS CENTRAL BANK OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION STANDARDIZES ON INFORMIX

CENTRAL BANK OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION STANDARDIZES ON INFORMIX MENLO PARK, Calif. (Nov. 1, 1994) -- Informix Software, Inc., (NASDAQ: IFMX) the leading provider of parallel processing database technology, today announced that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) has selected Informix database technology as its standard database for a five-year, multi-million dollar downsizing project, replacing a wide range of proprietary systems. Informix will supply its entire product line of database servers and tools for company-wide information management and logistics control. The Bank of Russia will implement INFORMIX-OnLine and INFORMIX-SE database servers, INFORMIX 4GL and INFORMIX-ESQL development tools, the C-ISAM(R) programming library, as well as INFORMIX-HyperScript(R) Tools and INFORMIX-ViewPoint(TM) and Informix connectivity products. The Bank of Russia has chosen Sun, AT&T GIS and Intel platforms for the UNIX implementation. The contract is one of the largest ever for information technology in the former Soviet Union. "Informix will support both core processing and customer service in the Bank of Russia's new technology infrastructure," said Steve Sommer, vice president of marketing at Informix. "The Bank of Russia joins more than 160 financial services organizations worldwide who have selected Informix as the supplier of choice as they move their mission-critical core business functions to open systems." Westmount Technology's I-CASE Yourdon technology will also be integrated in the system to enable easy adaptation of applications in response to rapid changes in Russia's legislation. Westmount's product will provide full project life cycle support, seamless target integration and generate client/server applicaitons with Informix tools. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has 100,000 employees. 40,000 of them are computer users. The Bank has 78 regional central banks. There are eight development centers for the bank's own applications. Informix in Banking Informix is committed to the unique needs of the banking industry, providing scalable, high performance, high availability, interoperable, secure databases for both front- and back-end open systems-based solutions. Informix has more than 160 banking and finance clients worldwide, using Informix database technology for applications such as: banking branch automation, integrated trading systems, F/X settlements, credit card processing, asset liability management, mortgage loan processing, stock piling and financial analysis, portfolio management, brokerage, and money management. 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) benchmarks for UNIX-based systems. Informix products also include application development tools for creating client/server production applications, decision support systems, and ad-hoc query interfaces, and connectivity software that allows information to be shared transparently from PCs to mainframes within the corporate computing environment. Informix's corporate headquarters is based in Menlo Park, California. ### -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% William Daul Advanced Support INFORMIX SOFTWARE INC. 4100 Bohannon Dr. (415) 926-6488 - wk Menlo Park, CA. 94025 uunet!infmx!billd or billd@informix.com