PRESS - DOCUMENTUM AND INFORMIX ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

DOCUMENTUM AND INFORMIX ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE Focus to Provide High Performance, Scalable Document Management System PLEASANTON, CA, September 18, 1995-Documentum Inc., a leading enterprise document management vendor, and Informix Software, a leading relational database software company, today announced a strategic alliance in which Documentum will port their Enterprise Document Management System (EDMS) to Informix's OnLine Dynamic Server 7.1 relational database system. This agreement will align the two leading vendors' ability to assist customers in the management of all types of data, both structured and unstructured. The strengths of both Documentum and Informix include performance, scalability, and enterprise interoperability which are key requirements in servicing the enterprise needs of global customers. The alliance will serve to enhance both companies' position of extending solutions across the enterprise. "Documentum and Informix share close synergy in technology, partnership philosophy and understanding of customers needs and requirements," said Jeffrey A. Miller, president and CEO at Documentum. "This philosophy and vision, coupled with a joint committment to providing information management solutions, make Documentum and Informix a solid team." Phil White, president and CEO at Informix stated, "The ability to support our customers' requirements for managing unstructured data, including text, documents, images, audio, and video, is a key direction in the continuing evolution of Informix products. Aligning ourselves with Documentum provides Informix with core abilities to handle additional data types. As market leaders, Documentum's collaboration with Informix creates an ability to become a major presence in the synergistic management of structured and unstructured information." The Documentum EDMS is a family of open client/server products designed to handle business critical documents, and processes in a distributed environment. Informix's OnLine Dynamic Server 7.1 provides a next generation parallel database architecture that delivers mainframe-caliber scalability, manageability, and performance with automatic distribution of workloads. The proven track record of both Informix and Documentum ensures a solution that provides high performance scalability and interoperability across the enterprise. The availability of Documentum with Informix is targeted for initial customer release in 1996. Documentum's EDMS The Documentum EDMS family includes: Documentum Workspace, a graphical user environment which features the optional Virtual Document Manager, the Documentum Server, including library services, workflow, and Dynamic Document Assembly, and the Documentum Toolkit, which includes a set of APIs for building custom solutions and the Quickbuilder screenpainter. About Informix Informix Software is the leading supplier of hig-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. The company's corporate headquarters is in Menlo Park, California. Informix is available on the Worldwide Web by contacting: http//www.informix.com/ About Documentum Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Documentum sells the Documentum Enterprise Document Management System through a direct sales force, systems integrators, and affiliated distributors in Canada and Europe. The company was founded in 1990 to offer a new class of enterprise document management applications that provide dramatic improvement in business-critical document processes. The Documentum EDMS is the first family of open, client/server software products that can be tailored to specific enterprise document applications. Documentum has more than 100 customer sites in pharmaceutical, manufacturing, regulatory, and government applications around the world. Documentum is a Hewlett Packard PA-RISC Developer, and a HP Channel Partners member. Documentum is also a member of the IBM Solution Developer Operations POWER Team and is a registered Sun Microsystems Catalyst Program Third-Party Supplier. **************************************************************** For more information on the Documentum/Informix Alliance, please contact MATT BRUNNQUELL, Account Manager, 415-737-3625 (mattb). ***************************************************************** Documentum, Documentum Workspace, Virtual Document manager, Documentum Server, Dynamic Document Assembly, and Documentum Toolkit are trademarks of Documentum Inc. All other companies and products may be trademarks of the respective company with which they are associated. Informix is a registered trademark. Dynamic Server is a trademark of Informix Software, Inc. -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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