PRESS - SPIDER TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMIX SOFTWARE ANNOUNCE A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO PROVIDE WEB/DATABASE INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ross Sullivan Spider Technologies, Inc. 415-321-7100 SPIDER TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMIX SOFTWARE ANNOUNCE A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO PROVIDE WEB/DATABASE INTEGRATION AND APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT San Jose, CA (July 18, 1995) Spider Technologies, Inc., a Silicon Valley company, and Informix Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFMX), the leading provider of parallel processing database technology, today announced a strategic partnership to provide a comprehensive solution for integrating databases with the World Wide Web. The partnership brings together Spider's visual Web/database application builder, Spider, with Informix's relational database technology. "Informix is committed to extending its technological leadership into the Web market," said Phil White, President and CEO of Informix. "The Web offers Informix customers significant opportunities for internal and external applications that leverage vast stores of valuable data. The combination of Spider and Informix provides our customers with the industry's most advanced open solution for using the Web as a business tool." Spider Technologies views the partnership with Informix as an important step toward delivering solutions to unleash the full business potential of the Internet. With 30 million Internet users, the Web is a cost-effective and dynamic channel to customers, suppliers, investors, and other people external to an organization. The Web is also a powerful and flexible technology for intra-organization communication and collaboration. The Web adds significant value to the information that resides in databases. "Companies have a unique opportunity to gain competitive advantage from global access to databases via the Web," said Zack Rinat, President and CEO of Spider." The traditional approach of custom programming Web/database applications has discouraged many companies. Spider is an open solution that allows our customers to create and maintain complex database applications with minimal time and resources." Spider is the first integration technology that allows application developers to create Web/database applications quickly and easily, without programming. The product puts the power of application development in the hands of virtually anyone in an organization. The visual development environment allows developers to view database structures in an intuitive interface, select database columns and tables through point and click, and to directly manipulate HTML forms and fields though drag and drop. About Spider Spider Technologies is a Silicon Valley start-up, founded to meet the growing need of companies, developers, and system integrators that are seeking to use the Web as a business tool. Located in Palo Alto, California, Spider is backed by venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, and is one of Informix' recent Internet applications partners under the Informix InSync program. About Informix Informix Software is the leading supplier of high performance, parallel processing database technology for open systems. The company's database servers are the number one choice of computer hardware manufacturers for publishing Transaction Processing Council (TPC) benchmarks for UNIX-based systems. Informix products also include applications development tools for creating client/server production applications, decision support systems, ad-hoc query interfaces, and connectivity software that allows information to be shared transparently from PCs to mainframes within the corporate computes environments. Informix's corporate headquarters are located in Menlo Park, California. -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% William Daul Advanced Support INFORMIX SOFTWARE INC. 4100 Bohannon Dr. (415) 926-6488 - wk Menlo Park, CA. 94025 uunet!infmx!billd or billd@informix.com