PRESS: Informix in the News
List of Informix related articles. Format: PUBLICATION "Article Name" Summary of Article [Date, Location in Publication, Author] Informix in the News --------------------------------- (03/25/97) Informix in the News SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS "Oracle battles rival publicly" The billboards along Highway 101 reflect the ongoing dispute between Informix and Oracle. In a statement released on Friday, Oracle stated that Informix had downgraded its claims against 11 former Informix engineers who now work for Oracle. The suit charges that the former employees have misappropriated trade secrets and breached their confidentiality agreements. A hearing is scheduled for May 12 in Portland, Ore. (3/22/97, pg. C1, Jodi Mardesich) Additional coverage: C/NET "Database rivals trade barbs" (3/21/97, online, Tim Clark) INFORMATIONWEEK "Informix tones down suit against Oracle" (3/21/97, online, Jeff Sweat) DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE "Informix drops some claims from lawsuits vs Oracle" (3/21/97, online, staff writer) RETAIL TECHNOLOGY "A dozen retailers select Informix" Twelve major retailers have selected Informix as the database of choice. "Clearly Informix's momentum in the retail industry is demonstrated by the votes of confidence from these leading players, joining a long list of established Informix users," said Nadja Ghausi, senior marketing manager of retail industries. Customers cited in the article include: Certified Grocers of California, Circuit City, The Gap, H.E. Butt, Kinko's, Long's Drug Stores, Neiman Marcus, Price Chopper, Randall's, Service Merchandise, Wegman's Food Markets and Whole Foods Market. (3/97, pg. 16, staff writer) COMPUTERWORLD "Informix gives Universal Server a lift" With Oracle8 due to ship by midyear, Informix is aggressively adding new hardware platform support to INFORMIX-Universal Server, which is currently available on Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Silicon Graphics, Inc. By June, Informix plans to add support for Windows NT and four additional Unix platforms, including Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM. (3/24/97, pg. 121, Craig Stedman) C/NET "Informix dolls up data interface" Informix has made an equity investment into the three-month-old company, Perspecta, founded by veterans of MIT's Media Lab. Perspecta will create "visualization software" for viewing data stored in databases and Web sites. The new technology will be incorporated into INFORMIX-Universal Server. "The problem is with the amount of information that people have to deal with. There is no context, no big picture," said David Clarke, director of product marketing at Perspecta. "We're working on products that give you the big picture and show you how data is related." (3/18/97, online, Mike Ricciuti) COMPUTERWORLD "Informix server retired" Informix plans to retire its Online Dynamic Server relational database in the second half of the year after incorporating it into the upcoming Version 7.3 of its Universal Server. The company tentatively plans to offer a relational-only license for Universal Server to accommodate users who do not need object functionality. (3/24/97, pg. 47, staff writer) INFORMATIONWEEK "Data mining you can afford" Data mining technology offers big payoffs for companies in highly competitive industries by defining customer trends beyond what may be found with conventional query tools. MCI used a data mining solution, including an Informix database, to discover new ways to sell its voice and data solutions. The article outlines a number of vendor solutions to meet the growing data mining technology demand. It notes two vendors, Angoss International and NeoVista, who are building Informix DataBlades for data mining. (3/24/97, pg. 128, Lisa Nadile) WEB WEEK "Hewlett-Packard to ship its first cryptography-enabled smart cards" Last week, Hewlett-Packard announced the availability of its first two cryptography-enabled smart cards. The ImagineCard Web for electronic commerce and ImagineCard Corporate for intranets, are the first products from a joint development effort between Gemplus, HP and Informix. The Smartcard solutions will be available in April 1. (3/17/97, pg. 14, Bill Roberts) DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE "Compaq, Informix set record for transactions on SAP R/3 sys" Compaq Computer and Informix announced a record-setting performance for processing sales and distribution transactions on SAP AG's R/3 system, beating the previous record by 19 percent. The record for 1,116 benchmark users was achieved running INFORMIX-Online Dynamic Server 7.20 on a Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server. (3/14/97, online, staff writer) INFOWORLD "Informix" Next month Informix will unveil new customer service programs for building both data warehouse and data mart applications. (3/24/97, pg. 3, staff writer)