PRESS: INFORMIX ANNOUNCES NEW ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

INFORMIX ANNOUNCES NEW ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE FOCUSING ON KEY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FOR CUSTOMERS MENLO PARK, Calif., (May 13, 1996) Informix Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:IFMX), the leading provider of innovative database technology, today announced several executive appointments in the marketing, sales, and research & development organizations, as well as the creation of several new business units. Effective immediately, the new organizational structure is designed to deliver superior value to customers through the creation of focused market and technology teams led by the most seasoned executives within the company. "Over the last several years, we have not only grown our business rapidly, but we have positioned the company as the database technology leader and a true enterprise-level player," said Phil White, chairman and CEO, Informix. "As we continue to grow, it is imperative that we operate within a structure that allows us to continue focusing on our core business and be increasingly responsive to our customers' needs on a global level. The creation of business units will allow us to continue innovating and marketing our industry-leading database technology, while dedicating resources in high growth markets. The new structure also enables us to effectively leverage the enormous talent pool we have amassed with the recent acquisitions of Illustra Information Technologies and Stanford Technology Group (STG). I am confident that this new organizational structure and new executive appointments will strengthen our overall image, focus and direction, and will contribute dramatically to our continued success." New Business Units Dick Williams, former president and CEO of Illustra, has been appointed senior vice president, Business Units for Informix. Williams is responsible for building and managing five strategic business units that address some of the crucial issues that will affect the database landscape over the next several years. The new business units complement Informix's ongoing core business of providing high performance, scalable database servers and development tools by studying key customer issues in their respective domain areas, and building the crucial partnerships or value-added products required to help customers innovate. Assisting Williams in his new role is Bruce Golden, former vice-president of marketing for Illustra. Golden has line management responsibility for both the Internet/Intranet and DataBlade Developer's business units, and will serve as Williams' chief-of-staff. Five new general managers have also been named as heads of the respective business units: DataBlade Developers, under the direction of Dave Cope, Data Warehousing, under the direction of Kirill Scheynkman, Interactive Sports and Entertainment, under the direction of Skip Glass, Internet/Intranet, under the direction of Bill Ray, and Workgroup Solutions, under the direction of Brett Bachman. Marketing In the last few years, the overall positioning and awareness of Informix in the marketplace has improved dramatically. As the company continues its rapid growth, the responsibility of increasing its global position and image becomes more complex, requiring a more aggressive and concentrated effort. Steve Sommer has been appointed vice president of worldwide marketing, to lead this critical endeavor. Jeff Hudson has been appointed to vice president of business development and product marketing. Hudson continues to lead business development in key market areas and will determine the direction and scope of the company's product plans. Sales Organization As announced earlier this year, Informix sales organizations have merged under the appropriate geographic heads, all reporting to Phil White: Ron Alvarez, Americas; Ken Coulter, Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia/Pacific; Howard Graham, Federal; and Ed Winder, Japan. Former Illustra sales representatives have been incorporated into the various sales geographies. In addition, two new executive appointments have been made within Informix's Americas sales organization. Scott Chalmers, who reports to Ron Alvarez, has assumed the new role of vice president, U.S. sales. Chalmers has been a key contributor on Informix's U.S. sales team for six years, both in his exceptional management of the Western Region, as well as in his previous capacity as manager of the Rocky Mountain district. In his new position, Chalmers is responsible for managing U.S. sales, concentrating his efforts on Fortune 100 accounts. Also reporting to Ron Alvarez, Steve Nelson, formerly of IBM, has been named vice president of Americas lines of business, sales and marketing. Nelson is responsible for industry marketing and sales to Telecom, and industry marketing to the Finance, Manufacturing and Retail lines of business. Research & Development A key part of Informix's R&D team is the integration of STG's and Illustra='s technologies into the company's industry-leading DSA technology. The following executive appointments have been made to continue the strong leadership and success of Informix's research and development team. Michael Stonebraker, the founder of Illustra, has been named vice president and chief technology officer of Informix. In this capacity, Stonebraker will help develop Informix's technology strategy and identify technologies outside of the company's current plan that will be initially developed under his direction. Paula Hawthorne, formerly of Illustra, has been appointed vice president of tools development reporting to Mike Saranga, senior vice president, who continues to head the company's product management and development. "I'm very pleased that our hard work over the last several months has resulted in a number of new teams designed to help accelerate Informix's leadership position in crucial new market and technology areas," summarized White. "The cumulative talent of the Informix, Illustra, and STG teams all coming together is very exciting to watch. We feel very confident about meeting the challenges ahead of us, including dominating important new segments of the information management market." About Informix Informix Software, based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides innovative database technology that enables the world's leading corporations to manage and grow their businesses. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments, ranging from workgroups to very large OLTP and data warehouse applications. Informix's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of many leading-edge information technology solution areas. With the acquisition of Illustra Information Technology's completely extensible database technology, Informix is now positioned as the first information management company capable of meeting the market"s exploding need for a sophisticated database engine that combines enterprise scalability, robustness and parallel processing with the ability to store, retrieve, manage and manipulate virtually any kind of rich content data. 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