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HP AND INFORMIX INTEGRATE LEADING-EDGE TECHNOLOGIES TO DELIVER COMPREHENSIVE, INTELLIGENT INTERNET SOLUTION Industry Leaders Respond to Internet Evolution with Integrated Commercial Web Solutions via HP Domain Enterprise Servers and Informix Universal Web Architecture PALO ALTO, Calif., (Jan. 16, 1997) -- Hewlett-Packard Company and Informix Software, Inc. today announced that the Domain XE line of HP Domain Enterprise Servers will be pre-integrated with the Informix Universal Web Architecture, a move that would extend HP's Internet and intranet solution with industry-leading, object-relational-database capabilities. This collaborative offering from HP and Informix is designed to address directly the evolution of the Web from a collection of simple-text files to a wide variety of interactive multimedia applications that support dynamic-content management. The integration of the HP Domain platform and the Informix Universal Web Architecture is expected to enable businesses to obtain all the tools they need to create media-rich, dynamic, manageable Internet applications from a single vendor. In addition, Informix announced that its INFORMIX-Universal Server database is slated to be available on the Domain XE platform later this quarter and that it has chosen the HP 9000 as a primary development platform for INFORMIX-Universal Server. Together, Domain XE and the Informix Universal Web Architecture provide a fully integrated line of Internet servers that deliver the most powerful, versatile and manageable business-ready platform for information access, collaboration and core business-transaction solutions. By integrating the HP Domain Business Suite -- which is based on Netscape SuiteSpot technologies -- and the Informix Universal Web Architecture, Domain XE can deliver a pre-assembled, pre-installed solution that eliminates the extensive engineering needed to integrate hardware and software technologies from multiple vendors. With this pre-integrated, collaborative solution, businesses will have the ability to evolve along with the Net, creating and managing dynamic Internet and intranet applications for such new-breed applications as dynamic-content management, the Web and electronic commerce. "HP and Informix are providing a hardware and software solution that will enable organizations to develop the next generation of enterprise-class Internet and intranet solutions," said Allen Bonde, director of Internet Computing Strategies for Yankee Group, a Boston-based market research firm. "This collaboration has a great deal of potential because it addresses both the demand for more intelligent, personalized Web-applications and the growing need to manage systems, networks, applications and Web content within a single solution." "Today and continuing into the future, the effective use of Internet technologies will further distinguish one service provider from another," said Len Hanlock, chief information officer for DHL. "At DHL, we are in the business of delivering information, on time, every time. We currently work closely with all three organizations and welcome this collaborative effort by HP, Informix and Netscape to provide businesses with a comprehensive Internet and intranet solution from a single vendor. Having a single source for worldwide support will enable us to deliver on our service commitments to our customers in a more efficient manner." Domain XE with Informix Universal Web Architecture includes the following: *HP Domain Enterprise Server Family -- HP Domain Servers, announced in November 1996, are pre-integrated, 64-bit UNIX system servers containing business-ready software applications that provide customers with a powerful, versatile, manageable platform for controlling and building mission-critical applications on the Net. Designed to help customers implement and control information access, collaboration and core business-transaction solutions across the Internet and intranets, HP Domain Enterprise Servers enable organizations to move their business to the Internet. *HP Domain Business Suite -- Leveraging industry-leading HP OpenView network-management technology, Netscape SuiteSpot integrated-server software and enterprise-class electronic mail and messaging with HP OpenMail, the HP Domain Business Suite incorporates completely integrated system, network and application management across complex data. The Domain Business Suite also provides single-view, multiserver configuration, management and administration through a single browser. The HP Domain Enterprise Server management system is the most comprehensive and powerful integrated management system on the market today -- including performance-analysis templates for HP OpenView PerfView and HP OpenView MeasureWare that information-technology managers can use to manage Web-server performance. *Informix Universal Web Architecture -- Informix's Universal Web Architecture consists of Informix's database servers and tools, INFORMIX-Universal Web Connect, Informix Web DataBlade Module, strategic partnerships with leading Web vendors and special programs that enable today's businesses to create truly intelligent and interactive Internet and intranet applications for publishing and transaction-based environments across the distributed enterprise. Domain XE with the Informix Universal Web Architecture includes the following: - INFORMIX-Universal Server -- combines the breakthrough performance and unmatched scalability of Informix=92s industry-leading Dynamic Scalable Architecture with the security-enhanced, user-defined extensibility of Informix's DataBlade technology. The newly available object-relational server enables companies to manage industry- or customer-specific datatypes, as well as rich data, including Web pages, time-series data, numbers, images, maps, sound and video. INFORMIX-Universal Server is a single-engine solution that provides all the core capabilities and makes it easy for customers to extend the Informix database with datatypes as required; - INFORMIX-Universal Web Connect -- provides an open platform that enables Informix's Web partners and customers to write intelligent Web applications. INFORMIX-Universal Web Connect services include an Application Page Builder API, state and connection-management features, publish and subscribe, Java connectivity and a security interface; - INFORMIX Web DataBlade Module -- provides the primary means for storing all content and application logic within the Informix database. The Web DataBlade Module, an application development and management environment, allows developers to create, manage and deploy intelligent Web applications quickly and easily, while reducing the time and effort required to update Web sites; - Text DataBlade Modules -- provide content-based document searches using a comprehensive set of functions, such as relevance ranking, concept searching, fuzzy search and proximity searching; - Informix Web Application Templates -- provide customizable combinations of schema designs, functional code and end-user-interface specifications that support a defined set of business criteria or specific solution set. With these templates, an application developer ca