Re: PRESS: Informix in the News
I committed your comments!! Bravo!! :- ) At 02:37 PM 3/4/98 -0400, you wrote: >To the high-end to compete with more experienced companies (ORACLE, Sybase, IBM) >with better financial positions and better marketing/sales strategies. > >Informix is leaving the low-end to Microsoft, but will stay Microsoft at low-end >or will go to the high-end too? If Microsoft go there too, what you going= to do >Informix? > >You had left a lot of customers hanged-on with your tools (4GL, NewEra) and >mid-size/workgroup databases (SE, Workgroup edition). Are you aware of= this? > >Christine Shannon wrote: > >> 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) >> >> 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) > > >Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=3Dus-ascii; name=3D"vcard.vcf" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Description: Card for Melvin Perez >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=3D"vcard.vcf" > >Attachment Converted: C:\\CORREO\\vcard17.vcf > Informix Costa Rica Soporte T=E9cnico Sistemas Integrales de Computaci=F3n