From: billd@informix.com (William Daul)
Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
Subject: Press Announcement:  Informix OnLine for Netware
Date: 15 Sep 92 06:42:50 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: billd@cheetah


INFORMIX ANNOUNCES ONLINE FOR NETWARE

New Database Server Combines OLTP Power with  Ease-of-administration
for Client/server Applications


MENLO PARK, Calif., (September 14 1992)   Informix Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:IFMX)
today  introduced its INFORMIX-OnLine database server as a NetWare Loadable
Module (NLM) for the Novell NetWare v3.11 network operating system.  The
database server, called INFORMIX-OnLine for NetWare,  Version 4.1 supports DOS
and Microsoft-Windows clients and the Novell SPX/IPX networking protocol.   

INFORMIX-OnLine for NetWare combines the high-performance and resiliency of the
company's UNIX-based OnLine server with the combination of power, functionality,
and ease of administration that has been lacking in other SQL-based database
servers for NetWare.  Applications developed for the INFORMIX-OnLine UNIX server
-- including the thousands of packages available from Informix value-added
resellers (VARs) -- can be easily ported to "downsized" environments
incorporating Novell LANs.  

"OnLine for NetWare advances our goal to provide broadly scalable client/server
solutions to our  customers," said Carol Lamberson, product marketing manager at
Informix.  "It delivers on the promise of NetWare v3.11 by fully exploiting
NetWare's inherent capacity and robustness.  With INFORMIX-OnLine, now available
on the Novell platform, information systems executives can downsize to NetWare
with confidence, because finally a NetWare database server has arrived that
delivers the capacity, high availability and data integrity they need.  Just as
important, OnLine is easy to install  and to administer, something unheard-of
until now in SQL-based network database servers of this caliber."

"We are very pleased Informix has ported their popular UNIX-based database
management system to the NetWare v3.11 platform as a NetWare Loadable Module,"
said Jan Newman, executive vice president and general manager of Novell's
NetWare Systems Group.  "This product enhances the ability of NetWare-based
networks to integrate into enterprise-wide computing environments and meets our
customers' needs for support of multimedia and imaging applications."

Robust, flexible database server for NetWare users

The INFORMIX-OnLine for NetWare server features a number of advanced
capabilities.  The server:

- Is highly robust and reliable, with automatic fast recovery, on-line and
incremental archiving, and disk mirroring features to ensure continuous
availability and resiliency.  

- Supports multimedia and imaging applications by allowing users to store
non-character data, such as images,  documents and audio, as Binary Large
Objects (BLOBS) directly in the database, so they can be accessed as easily as
more traditional data types.

- Features ease-of-installation and ease-of-administration through a utility
that provides three levels of installation for beginning, intermediate or
advanced database administrators, and DB-Monitor, the only menu-driven
monitoring utility for SQL-based NetWare servers.  DB-Monitor enables
administrators to track database usage without having to learn a new set of
commands.

- Features a multi-threaded architecture, shared memory and group commit
facilities, to deliver performance optimized for on-line transaction processing
(OLTP).  

- Supports a wide range of popular development and end-user tools, including 4GL
development tools  and end-user data access tools from Informix, and GUI tools
from Channel Computing Inc., Gupta Technologies, JYACC Inc., Lotus Development
Corp., Matesys Corp.,   Pioneer Software, Powersoft Corp., UniFace Corp., and
others.

- Supports distributed database operations for users linked across multiple
NetWare servers.

- Is compatible with both INFORMIX-OnLine for UNIX and INFORMIX-SE for UNIX and
DOS, the company's enterprise and departmental servers.  

Distribution, Pricing 

INFORMIX-OnLine for NetWare, now scheduled to be available in October, will be
distributed through Informix's established, 1000+ VAR community, as well as
through direct sales to large corporate customers.  The company has the largest
base of VARs among relational database management system (RDBMS) suppliers, and
many are already planning to port their applications to the new server.

To appeal to a broader distribution base, Informix is offering a three-band
pricing structure for  INFORMIX-OnLine for NetWare:  $4,995 for 16 users; $8,995
for 32 users and $16,995 for an unlimited number of users.  The pricing
structure was developed in an effort to encourage VARs to make NetWare available
on their systems.

About Informix

Informix Software, Inc., is a leading supplier of information management
software providing solutions from the database through the desktop.  Informix
products include powerful distributed database management systems, robust
application development tools and graphical- and character-based productivity
software for delivering information to every significant desktop platform.  With
corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Informix has European headquarters
in London, and Asia/Pacific headquarters in Singapore.










INFORMIX LAUNCHES 
INFORMIX-SE VERSION 4.1 FOR DOS, NETWARE

Support for Windows, NetWare 2.2 Added To Popular SQL Database Server	


MENLO PARK, Calif.,  (September 15, 1992)    Informix Software, Inc.
(NASDAQ:IFMX), today announced INFORMIX-SE Version 4.1 for DOS and 
NetWare v2.2.   A full-featured SQL database management system optimized for
small companies and self-contained departments, INFORMIX-SE offers performance,
data consistency, security and standards compliance in an easy-to-administer,
low-cost package.  

Informix also announced today INFORMIX-OnLine for NetWare, a robust SQL database
server for NetWare v3.11 platforms.  Together, INFORMIX-SE Version 4.1 for DOS
and INFORMIX-OnLine for NetWare bolster Informix's strategy toward providing a
complete line of scalable client/server technologies for the rapidly changing
information systems needs of large- and medium-sized companies.

"With the wholesale movement toward 'downsizing', 'upsizing,' and 'rightsizing,'
many companies are looking for the right level of computing power and resiliency
at the right price," said Carol Lamberson, product marketing manager at
Informix.  "At the same time, they must have scalability and flexibility for
future growth.  Our two new servers -- INFORMIX-OnLine for NetWare and
INFORMIX-SE for DOS and NetWare v2.2 -- provide solutions optimized for specific
client/server environments, while still offering broad scalability and
portability for future needs.  INFORMIX-SE for DOS and NetWare v2.2 is ideal for
low cost development and geographic deployment within a corporate environment."


Portability between UNIX and NetWare servers

INFORMIX-SE  for DOS and NetWare is compatible with INFORMIX-OnLine for NetWare
and Informix's OnLine and SE UNIX database servers.  This means users can easily
connect applications developed on DOS and Windows to NetWare v3.11 and UNIX
servers, and can also scale their system upward for additional capacity and
performance as their needs grow.

New features add power,  flexibility

New features added to Version 4.1 of INFORMIX-SE for DOS include:

- Microsoft( Windows compatibility for migrating the thousands of applications
developed for DOS to Windows;

- Support for NetWare v2.2, including built-in security and data integrity
features;  

- New cost-based optimizer for dramatic improvements in the speed of queries
performed on large tables; and

- Support for additional file handles, which enables developers to open more
tables concurrently and thereby design more sophisticated applications;
  
Pricing

Single-user copies of INFORMIX-SE for DOS and NetWare 2.2 are available for $395
and begin at $2,795 for multiple users.
 
New C-ISAM package also announced

Informix also announced today C-ISAM Version 4.1 for DOS and NetWare v2.2
platforms.   C-ISAM is a library of C functions for building and accessing
indexed sequential access method (ISAM) files.

About Informix
Informix Software, Inc., is a leading supplier of information management
software providing solutions from the database through the desktop.  Informix
products include powerful distributed database management systems, robust
application development tools and graphical- and character-based productivity
software for delivering information to every significant desktop platform.  With
corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Informix has European headquarters
in London, and Asia/Pacific headquarters in Singapore.

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