PRESS: Informix in the News

List of Informix related articles. Format: PUBLICATION "Article Name" Summary of Article [Date, Location in Publication, Author] Informix in the News --------------------------------- (10/15/96) PC WEEK "Informix console provides centralized management" This week at the IECC (Informix Enterprise Command Center) at the Netscape Internet Developer Conference, Informix will unveil a universal database management console, giving administrators a single point of access to repositories spanning workgroup to enterprise servers. Administrators will be able to launch the product using third-party system management platforms from BMC Software, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Tivoli and others. Rolled out in two phases, the first release, due in December, will let administrators view and manipulate their Informix servers running on Unix and NT from a single point using a Windows 95 or NT interface. The second version, due in the second quarter of 1997, will support Java programming language, enabling administrators to monitor and tune databases through a browser by deploying Java applets. Informix is also on schedule to deliver its Universal Server in December, which shipped to DataBlade developers earlier this month. (10/14/96, cover, Juan Perez) C/NET "Informix climbing up to Oracle" Newly anointed as the world's second-largest database software company, Informix plans to make a wide-ranging announcement next week regarding data replication, systems management and Web deployment tools. Informix plans to deliver distributed replications tools -- INFORMIX-Workgroup Replication and INFORMIX-Enterprise Replication -- by year's end, bringing it on par with tools from Oracle and Sybase. Also due by year's end, INFORMIX-Enterprise Command Center, a new systems management tool, will allow database administrators to manage thousands of database servers from a central location. In addition, Informix is partnering with Praxis International to build a tool based on Praxis OmniReplicator. (10/14/96, online, Mike Ricciuti) INFORMATIONWEEK "Informix meets database deadline" With the announcement that Informix has begun shipping a test release of Universal Sever (to 30 companies), the company has met the first deadline to deliver an object-relational database that melds Informix's DSA architecture with the object-oriented database extensions of Illustra. Some observers were skeptical that Informix could meet the delivery schedule. "Informix's competitors didn't think Informix would ever get this out of the lab," notes Peter Kastner, an analyst with Aberdeen Group. Michael Stonebraker, Informix's chief technology officer, admits that some sacrifices were made to bring the Informix and Illustra technologies together on schedule. Features such as "time travel" and "virtual columns" will ship at a later date. (10/14/96, pg. 74, John Foley) INFORMATIONWEEK "Informix to develop object DataBlade" In response to Oracle's Network Computing Architecture announced recently, Informix's solution will include a DataBlade that works with Informix's Universal Server and which will support CORBA, the Microsoft COM/DCOM component architecture, and Java applets. (10/14/96, pg. 32, John Foley) COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS "Universal servers close to market" Informix and Oracle both revised plans outlining how they will deliver their versions of the Universal Server, while Sybase will reveal plans for its Adaptive Server next week. All three vendors now plan to ship a core database that has little support for non-relational data types such as objects, video, audio, time series or geospatial which will instead be sold as add-ons or options. According to Informix, instead of shipping the Universal Server with core DataBlades, a production version of the Universal Server without DataBlades will be available by year's end. Informix is still working out how it will deliver DataBlades, but the company wants to include the new functionality at no additional cost. (10/14/96, pg. 10, Shawn Willett) NEW MEDIA "Multimedia databases tame the Web" Illustra technology is highlighted in this article covering innovative multimedia databases, and customers such as NASA, Time, Inc. New Media and WebFactory are referenced. The key feature of the Illustra database, DataBlades are noted to reach further than media extensions created by IBM and Oracle, but the database is slower and doesn't support streamed video. (10/7/96, pg. 48, Jiri Weiss) VARBUSINESS "Informix Software, Inc." Informix has based its Internet solutions on its DSA architecture and DataBlade technology. The combination of the two technologies on the Informix Universal Server lets complex data be created as native objects rather than BLOBs, which are difficult to index and manipulate when working with OLTP-related applications. The DataBlade modules are object extensions that can be used for creating Web pages on the fly. (10/10/96, pg. 22, staff writer) NEWSBYTES NEWS NETWORK "Informix plans $25mil investment in Indian subsidiary" Informix plans to set up an Indian subsidiary by the end of 1996 and plans to form alliances with VARs and OEMs. Informix's focus on the Indian market comes from the strong 51 percent growth it experienced in the Asia Pacific area, and some countries in Southeast Asia that had over 80 percent growth rates. Informix also saw its database licenses grow by 61 percent over 1995; its new product releases, such as INFORMIX-Workgroup Server for Unix and Windows NT and INFORMIX-OnLine XPS 8.1, were well-received. (10/10/96, online, C.T. Mahabharat) LAN TIMES "Database users go mobile" Informix and Microsoft, both of which trail behind leaders Oracle and Sybase in the mobile arena, plan to deliver first-generation mobile database software by the middle of next year. Informix Mobile will give users the option of deploying a mobile application with or without an accompanying mobile database. Informix Mobile gives developers the option of partitioning a mobile application so the client can run queries against the server database over a WAN. Lucent Technologies, Inc. is already working with an alpha release that automates sales of central-office telephony equipment. In the second-half of next year, Microsoft will release a "lightweight" edition of its SQL Server that will run on Windows 95 and NT. (10/14/96, pg. 45, Brent Dorshkind)