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 --------------------------------- (3/3/98) INFOWORLD ELECTRIC "Informix Focusing on High-End Apps, Says CEO" At a recent breakfast with the media, President and CEO of Informix Robert Finocchio Jr. announced that Informix is conceding the low-end Windows NT database market to Microsoft and instead plans to sell databases for high-end applications in online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing as well as for database-driven Web sites. The low-end, shrink-wrapped database marketplace is cornered by Microsoft, Finocchio= said. (Paul Krill, 2/24/98)=20 Additional coverage: YAHOO FINANCE "Informix to Focus on High-End Database Niches=96CEO" (Kourosh Karimkhany, 2/24/98) COMPUTER RESELLER NEWS "Informix CEO Lays Out Game Plan" (Shawn Willet, 2/24/98) PCWEEK ONLINE "Informix Chief Sees Light Ahead" At a recent press breakfast, Informix President and CEO Robert Finocchio Jr. was upbeat in discussing an encouraging fourth quarter in which Informix posted a $17.8 million profit on revenues of $181.2 million. In all of 1997, the Menlo Park, Calif. company lost $357.3 million. (Mark Hammond, 2/24/98) DATABASED WEB ADVISOR "Using Informix Datablades to Facilitate E-Commerce: Orchestrate all the Capabilities an E-Commerce Site Requires into a Single, Coherent, Manageable System" Informix=92s recently released Informix Dynamic Server with the Universal Data Option opens up a wealth of possibilities for those looking to tie together many systems to support electronic commerce. For many organizations, the Informix solution provides the right amount of performance, manageability, flexibility, and rapid Web application development to support a commercial presence on the Net. Informix Dynamic Server=92s ability to pull any data and functionality into the database as a first-class datatype gives it "integratability." (Staff Writer, March 1998)