PRESS RELEASE: MICROSOFT'S MIKE MAPLES TO SPEAK AT INFORMIX WORLDWIDE USERS CONFERENCE

MICROSOFT'S MIKE MAPLES TO SPEAK AT INFORMIX WORLDWIDE USERS CONFERENCE Conference to Feature Exhibition Hall, Over 60 Conference Sessions, Presentations by Industry Experts MENLO PARK, Calif. (May 24, 1993) -- Informix Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:IFMX) today announced that Mike Maples, executive vice president of Microsoft's Worldwide Products Group, will speak at at the 1993 Informix Worldwide Users Conference. Maples, who oversees all Microsoft product development and product marketing activities, will discuss the future of information technology at the conference's keynote session on July 14. The conference and exhibition will be held July 13-15 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. This year's conference entitled "Focus on Your Future," will also feature more than 60 conference sessions, seminars, tutorials and keynote speeches designed to help Informix's customers and partners prepare for the future of information management. The conference will also feature a 50,000 square foot exhibition hall that will host over 100 Informix customers, OEMs, VARS, and partners showcasing Informix-based solutions. Informix will also demonstrate its existing products and offer sneak previews of new products and technologies under development. Featured Speakers In addition to Mr. Maples, the conference will feature a roundtable discussion on the hottest issues facing today's information technology managers. Three leading industry experts: Peter Kastner, vice president, Aberdeen Group; Tony Percy, vice president, Gartner Group; and Rich Finklestein, president, Performance Computing will be the speakers in this plenary session. On the final day of the conference Phil White, Informix chairman and CEO, will talk about the future and direction of Informix's corporate and product strategies. Conference Program "In response to feedback from last year's successful conference, we have expanded the scope of this year's program," said Phil White, CEO, Informix Software. "This conference will focus on more real-world experiences from our customers and partners, more in-depth technical sessions offering insight into our existing and future products, and more information about the issues, trends and technologies that will drive the future of information management." Attendees will be able to choose from over 60 conference sessions divided into three conference tracks: Tools and Environments, Servers and Connectivity, and Applications and Management. Conference sessions, lead by Informix's top technical marketing and development personnel, consultants, and integrators, are designed to help attendees understand how to use Informix technology to build, deploy, run, and evolve their database applications. The conference program will include sessions on the newest versions of Informix's database servers: INFORMIX-OnLine and INFORMIX-SE; and Informix's new tools offerings including INFORMIX-HyperScript Tools, INFORMIX-ViewPoint, and INFORMIX-4GL for Windows. Sessions will also be offered on industry issues such as: downsizing, standards, distributed databases, imaging, developing client/server solutions and connectivity. The three-day conference and exhibition is expected to draw more than 1,500 attendees. All conference attendees will receive a full set of conference papers and proceedings. More information about the conference is available by contacting (800) 392-0207 in the U.S., (415) 322-7237 outside the U.S., or faxing (415) 322-2805. About Informix Informix Software, Inc., provides the most complete and productive database application 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. # # # -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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