PRESS MARC ANDREESSEN, CO-FOUNDER OF NETSCAPE, TO KEYNOTE INFORMIX WORLDWIDE USER CONFERENCE
MARC ANDREESSEN, CO-FOUNDER OF NETSCAPE, TO KEYNOTE INFORMIX WORLDWIDE USER CONFERENCE 4th Annual Conference To Be Held At San Jose Convention Center, July 17-20 MENLO PARK, Calif. (Jan. 31, 1995) -- Informix Software, Inc., (NASDAQ: IFMX) the leading provider of parallel processing database technology, today announced that 23-year old Marc Andreessen, vice president of technology and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-developer of the NCSA Mosaic* browser for the World Wide Web, will deliver the opening keynote address at the 1995 Informix Worldwide User Conference. Andreessen was honored in Microtimes as "Man of the Year" in 1994 and in Time Magazine's list of the 50 most promising Americans under age 40. This year's conference and exhibition entitled "Maximize Your Performance" will be held July 17-20 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Andreessen will open the conference by discussing the World Wide Web and its ability to maximize business' performance by understanding and exploiting opportunities on the information highway. Informix recently launched its site on the World Wide Web which provides users with easy access to a variety of information on Informix products, services, partners and customers. The conference will feature more than 80 conference sessions, tutorials, and other breakouts designed to help Informix's customers and partners effectively use Informix database technology to be more competitive. The conference will also feature a 75,000 square foot exhibition hall where over 100 Informix, customers, hardware and software partners, and VARs will showcase Informix-based solutions. Demonstrations of Informix's latest parallel database servers and tool products will be featured at the Informix booth during the exhibition. New In 1995 The fourth annual conference will feature half-day industry-specific sessions given by Informix's Industry Marketing group and customers to highlight Informix's strategy and success in specific industries. A panel of industry leaders will discuss future issues facing specific industry segments. End users will be able to meet with members of Informix's consulting organization to ask specific questions regarding Informix products or services. A Multi-Media Center will feature information on Informix's products and services in a number of media forms: World Wide Web, CD Rom, interactive kiosks, video and print. The conference will also feature a roundtable discussion on the latest trends in the database industry with leading industry analysts. "Informix has taken an industry-leading position in the database market with its advanced technology and record-breaking customer benchmark results," said Phil White, chairman and CEO of Informix. "This year's focus is to show our customer and partners how they can maximize their performance into the next century, using the most powerful and best architected database technologies." Conference Program Attendees will be able to choose from six conference tracks: Industry Solutions; Tools and Environments; Applications; Servers and Connectivity; Business Management; and Advanced Technology. Conference sessions, led by Informix's top technical marketing and development personnel, as well as consultants and integrators, are designed to help attendees understand how to take advantage of Informix technology as they look ahead to their future computing needs. More information about the conference is available by contacting (800) 926-EXPO in the U.S., (310) 459-4600 outside the U.S., or online at http://www.informix.com. 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