PRESS: INFORMIX ANNOUNCES 1996 WORLDWIDE USER CONFERENCE

PRESS: INFORMIX ANNOUNCES 1996 WORLDWIDE USER CONFERENCE Fifth-Annual Conference to Feature Keynote Address From Paul Saffo MENLO PARK, Calif. (Feb. 26, 1996) -- Informix Software, Inc., (NASDAQ:IFMX) the leading provider of parallel processing database technology today announced its fifth-annual worldwide user conference and exhibition to be held July 9-12 at the Navy Pier Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois. This year's conference, entitled Extend Your Horizons, will feature a keynote address by Paul Saffo, director at the Institute for the Future, a management consulting foundation that provides long-term planning and forecasting services to Fortune 100 companies and government agencies. Saffo specializes in long-term social and commercial impacts of new information technologies and is recognized as a leading futurist. The conference will also offer plenary sessions featuring members of Informix's "Dream Team" of database visionaries including Dr. Michael Stonebraker, co-founder and chief technology officer for Illustra and Gary Kelley, vice president of product development for Informix Software, Inc., who will each give their perspectives on the future of IT in these special plenary sessions that are new to the conference this year. Informix will also host a panel of three leading analysts--- Gene De Rose, president, Jupiter Communications; John McCarthy, director of research, new customer connection, Forrester Research; and J.Neil Weintraut, managing director of technology research, Hambrecht & Quist, who will address the Future of the Internet in a roundtable discussion. "We are extremely excited about this year's conference. With our recent acquisition of Illustra Information Technologies, Inc., we are able to extend our proven core technology with non-traditional data types while maintaining our scalability and high performance," says Phil White, Chairman and CEO. "We will demonstrate these enabling technologies, the solutions provided by our strategic partners and how our customers are benefiting from them today and their plans to grow with Informix in the future." The conference will feature more than 100 conference sessions, tutorials, and other breakouts designed to help Informixs customers and partners effectively use Informix database technology now and into the future. In-depth tutorials will focus on specific how-to training requested most by IT professionals. Attendees will be able to choose from five conference tracks: Trends in Technology, Industry Spotlights; Business Management; Advanced technology for Application Developers and Advanced Technology for DBAs. Key topics to be covered include interactive media, data warehousing, world wide web and the internet, mobile computing, business process re-engineering, OLTP and systems management. The conference will also feature a 100,000 square foot exhibition hall where over 110 Informix Hardware partners, ISVs and application providers will showcase Informix-based solutions. Demonstrations of Informixs latest products, solutions and services including our newly acquired technologies in multi media content management and datawarehousing will be featured at the Informix booth during the exhibition. More information about the conference is available by contacting (800) 784-6580 in the US, (617) 736-1779 outside the US or on-line at http//www.informix.com. About Informix Informix Software is the leading supplier of high performance, parallel processing database technology for open 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. ### INFORMIX, Dynamic Scalable Architecture, and OnLine Dynamic Server, are trademarks of Informix Software, Inc. And Illustra is a trademark of Illustra Information Technologies, Inc. All other names indicated by (R) or (TM) are trademarks their respective owners.