PRESS: Texas Instruments Integrated IEF Tool to Support Informix Database

Texas Instruments Integrated IEF Tool to Support Informix Database Menlo Park, Calif. (October 6, 1993) Informix Software Inc., (NASDAQ:IFMX) and the Advanced Information Management (AIM) software division of Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced a cooperative development and marketing agreement to integrate the Texas Instruments Information Engineering Facility (IEF) model-driven, application development tool with the INFORMIX-OnLine database server. The IEF and INFORMIX-OnLine integration is planned for release in limited beta on the Hewlett-Packard platform at the end of 1993, with general commercial availability planned for mid-year 1994. Additional platform support will follow later in 1994. IEF, a product incorporating client/server application development and assisting companies with their enterprise computing needs, combined with INFORMIX-OnLine, will provide customers optimum productivity and increased software application quality when creating powerful production business applications. "This agreement with TI represents a new opportunity to provide our mutual customer base with a powerful application development environment that takes advantage of our robust database technology," said Cheryl MacDonald, manager of Strategic Alliances and Acquisitions at Informix. "The support of TI's IEF product will further accelerate our rapidly growing presence in the enterprise-wide application arena. We look forward to a long-term relationship with TI, with these projects today and others in the future." "Texas Instruments is committed to supporting state-of-the-art database technology within its various application development tools," said Johnny Long, director of Information Engineering products for the Texas Instruments AIM software division. "TI recently announced IEF for Client/Server extending its integrated application development product to support design and generation of client/server application architectures. IEF for Client/Server together with INFORMIX-OnLine will provide customers with a model-driven approach for client/server applications that makes use of a high-performance database engine." About INFORMIX-OnLine INFORMIX-OnLine is a high-performance database management system (DBMS) utilized for high volume, distributed transaction processing and decision support environments. Features of INFORMIX-OnLine include stored procedures, which can reduce message traffic in a client/server environment; ANSI SQL-89-compliant declarative integrity constraints, which bring added security to a database, by enforcing a set of safety checks on all applications accessing the data; and distributed updates with two-phase commit recovery. About Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is a high-technology company with sales or manufacturing operations in more than 30 countries. TI products and services include semiconductors, defense electronics systems, software productivity tools, notebook computers and printers, custom engineering and manufacturing services, electrical controls, metallurgical materials, and consumer electronics products. The IEF product is being used by more than 750 customers worldwide, including 50% of the Fortune 100. About Informix Informix Software, Inc., provides the most complete and productive database technology to build, deploy, run and evolve applications. Informix products include powerful distributed database management systems, robust application development tools, and graphical- and character-based productivity software for delivering information to every significant desktop platform. With corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Informix has European headquarters in London, and Asia/Pacific headquarters in Singapore. ### --