PRESS: informix in the News
Informix in the News For the week of September1-September 7, 1998 PUBLICATION "Title" Body (Editor, 00/00/00) Forbes "Is Informix Back?" Informix's new boss has staunched the flow of red ink, and the company is attracting new customers. Informix stock, though, continues to trail the software sector, because Wall Street assumes (mistakenly so, according to Bob Finocchio) the demand for databases is tapped out, with a majority of the Unix-based servers belonging to Oracle, mainframes to IBM and Windows NT servers likely to be taken by Microsoft. Finocchio has accomplished many things to stabilize the company from selling real estate and laying off employees to selling stock and reforming the company's accounting practices. He has reorganized the company around three groups to improve focus on various markets and products: high-end transaction software for the standard RDBMS, data warehousing and e-commerce. Recently, Informix signed several big-name clients that chose Informix over Oracle, including the BBC, America Online, Lucent Technologies and Calvin Klein. The company may not be fully out of the woods, but they are off to a good start. (Nikhil Hutheesing, 9/21/98) INFORMATIONWEEK "Three-Tier Future" Home Depot will roll out a custom application for its buyers who import products from other countries. It is betting that using an application server as a middle tier in its computing architecture will help reduce the support costs and facilitate deployment. The application server will be built using NetDynamics' application server. The application will link the company's IBM DB2 and Informix databases via the application server with managers so they can get real-time updates to sales data. (Gregory Dalton, 8/3/98) GOVERNMENT COMPUTER NEWS "Informix Software Sees Linux Going Enterprisewide" Linux has made it through a few federal doors and is starting to look more commercial now that several leading application vendors have declared their support. Informix began shipping a version of their SE database after users groups listed Linux support as number one on their list. Oracle and Netscape have also announced support for the freeware operating system. (Florence Olsen, 8/31/98) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REPORT FOR HOSPITAL AND HEALTH NETWORKS "Product Briefs" Informix has been chosen by Cox Health Systems to build a patient information network between two recently acquired medical campuses. The Cox system will use a solution based on Informix's relational database technology and Creative Healthcare Systems' MedGenix software. (8/15/98) B3 MAGAZINE "Net Worth: World Wide Web Business Benefits" This was a contributed article, done by Frederick Thompson, Director of Global Telecom Market Development for Informix (This article does not focus on or mention Informix. It does use Informix customer success stories to illustrate its point.) Simply having a presence on the web is not enough anymore. Customers want information that will satisfy their unique needs. Today's web site content is much more complicated than simple text and images; it now consists of audio, video, 3-D animation, spreadsheets and more. The use of advanced database technologies allows companies to easily update and manage this very complex environment. (Frederick Thompson, July/August '98) NEW STRAITS TIMES PRESS (Malaysia) "Informix sees demand for data warehousing" Despite the region's economic downturn, Informix still sees a demand for its software in the Asia-Pacific market. Informix said that although the Asia-Pacific has lagged behind the United States and Europe in data warehouse deployment, the market has exploded in the last two years. The company plans to capitalize on this growth by developing a suite of integrated products that enables users to build and manage scalable data warehouses and data marts. The suite, to be called Decision Frontier Solution Suite is a combination of best-of-breed products and technologies, and is positioned as an infrastructure upon which vendors and customers can build applications. (Ferina Manechsha, 8/13/98) NEW STRAITS TIMES PRESS (Malaysia) "Informix to Focus on High-Growth Areas" Informix (Malaysia) plans to focus on two high-growth areas, data warehousing and electronic commerce. This move is in response to customer demands for solutions in these emerging business areas. Informix has introduced their new Decision Frontier Solution Suite for the data warehousing market and plans to introduce a complete e-commerce solution by the end of the year. (Wendy Lee, 8/27/98)