Re: PRESS: FIVE LEADING COMPANIES SELECT INFORMIX FOR

In article <3362372C.B2265392@mindspring.com>, Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com> writes >Christine Shannon wrote: >> >> FIVE LEADING COMPANIES SELECT INFORMIX FOR CYBERPUBLISHING SOLUTIONS ON THE >> WEB >> >> MENLO PARK, Calif. (April 23,1997) =96 Informix Software, Inc. >> (NASDAQ:IFMX), >> the leading provider of innovative database technology, today announced that >> five leading companies have selected Informix Universal Web Architecture as >> the technology platform to create, manage and deploy Web-based >> CyberPublishing sites. These customers include: >> > >OK, are you ready? Strap on your seat belts, and let's go... This is just too >good to pass up. > >> - The Associated Press - AP has created The WIRE, a real time news delivery >> Web site which contains stories, photos, graphics, audio, video, stock >> quotes and sport scores. Members receive a customized display of the news >> stories and content they want. http://wire.ap.org. >> =20 > ><yawn> > >> - ChinaByte - Produced by PDN Xinren Information Technology Co. Ltd. (PDN), >> a joint venture between The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the >> Chinese Government, and Rupert Murdock's Australian-based News Corporation. >> The Web site provides computer and technology news from around the world to >> China's largest and most computer-savvy audience. http://www.chinabyte.com. >> > >Hmmm... now we're parading a working relationship with a country that treats a country that contains 1 billion peeple, one fifth of the worlds population - does China really not have the major databases (Informix.Sybase,Oracle)?? >their people worse than cattle. Good public relations move. Go into business >with a country that treats people bad. Put business first over human rights. >Good move. Build that perception in peoples' minds. This will really help >our stock. "We think highly of the communist government." Ooooh... that's a >great one. > Who cares what we think - this is business. > >> - iVillage - Builds targeted communities online for live discussion amongst >> its members. One of their award-winning sites, Parent Soup, is an online >> community where parents share information about raising kids. A "Web Ring" >> section on the site allows for members to publish their personal Web home >> pages to the site for other members to access and interact with them >> directly. http://www.ivillage.com.=20 >> > >Cool. How did these companies get a copy of Universal Server? Through HP, >who pays the ad on this one? > >> - Matthew Bender - An electronic-commerce Web site that utilizes >> CyberPublishing. The site provides instant access to more than 250 >> expert-authored publications and libraries that address thousands of complex >> legal issues. The site, built by Informix Partner, Fort Point Partners, Of course law firms are a small market... >> allows customers to access and purchase only the pertinent law information >> they require. http://www.bender.com. >> > >Hmmm... cool. This is a wide audience. I know I'll be needing this. > >> - Mondadori Publishing - Publishes Time on Line, a news site that offers >> real time news updates from Reuters News Service. Informix databases also >> power the "Panorama" and "Donna Moderna" sites, two leading weekly magazines >> in Italy. http://www.mondadori.com. >> > >Wow. Really reaching out. > >> These companies rely on Informix's Universal Web Architecture to build >> value-added web sites that provide up-to-date and personalized information >> to their Internet, intranet and members-only site users. >> > >What is Universal Web Architecture? I don't know anything about this. I don't >have access to the inside track of elitists. I stumble onto it here? Nothing >sent to me in email to tell me about this, or annoucements elsewhere in the >trade magazines. No marketing. What a company. Give a trickle here and there >about the product line and wonder why sales are off. > Agreed. >> The Informix Universal Web Architecture consists of Informix database >> servers and tools, strategic partnerships and special programs that allow >> businesses to create intelligent Web applications for both publishing and >> transaction-based environments. >> > >Provided you pay for everything up front or are a part of the select few >who've actually seen it. I'm doubting whether it actually exists. > >> Informix customers use Informix Universal Web Architecture to build >> CyberPublishing applications. CyberPublishing saves time and costs by >> exploiting the unique power of the Web to provide a publishing process that >> supports the decentralized creation, layout, and distribution of documents >> and media-rich information, whether you are a traditional publisher or a >> corporate intranet. > >And a sweetheart deal must be set up between you and the vendor that probably >won't ever exist outside this deal once this product is available at large. >This >is an arrangement for promotional purposes, to give the illusion that the >product >is viable for this application off the shelf. > >> These savings are realized in three ways: >> - High Performance - Unlike other Web solutions, Informix Universal Web >> Architecture allows Web site content including Web pages, images and maps to >> be stored within a single integrated database for easy manageability and >> performance. The power of the Informix database allows customers to create >> Web applications that are extensible and scalable and provide high >> performance transaction-based sites for CyberPublishing environments.=20 > >Provided you can afford the license. Probably won't actually see the product >for a couple more years. > >> - Easy to Develop > >Of course it is. We heard this a while back on another product that went >nowhere. > >> - Informix=92s Universal Web Architecture allows for quick >> development of Web applications. Specifically with the Informix Web >> DataBlade module and Informix Universal Web Connect, the company's Web >> application development tools, developers can manage all the content and >> application logic stored centrally in the database and collaborate on >> application development. Modifications to the Web application can be >> accomplished by simply changing underlying information stored in the >> database, allowing organizations to update their Web applications quickly >> and easily.=20 > >I just don't believe it. I'll have to beg borrow or steal it just to see >it. > >> - Easy to Manage - With Universal Web Architecture customers can "remotely >> author," their own content on the Web. This gives the responsibility of >> maintaining information to the owners of the content. No longer does the MIS >> department have to be responsible for managing the timeliness or integrity >> of Web data. At the same time, MIS still maintains the centralized control >> of the 'look and feel' of the site through the use of application templates. >> > >We already have this. It's called project management, and using source code >control. Why would you pay for something you