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To: Lou who wrote (8864)	1/19/1998 10:20:00 PM
From: Lou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

Informix marches ahead--more news from a reposter----- ********************************************** Lou, VF Corporation(NYSE:VFC) and MarketMAX(tm), Inc. today announced that VF has awarded MarketMAX a multimillion dollar contract as a prime supplier for the VF MicroMarketer program, a Retail Floor Management (RFSM)system that facilitates sales planning, merchandise planning and replenishment for VF and its retail partners. VF's enterprise-wide legacy systems and a data warehouse will be running on Informix(tm) Corporation's database of the marketplace, product, distribution and display variables into a single system. At VF, the three-tier client/server MarketMAX IMS system utilizes the robust database platform of the Informix Dynamic Server(tm) to achieve the advanced retail functionality of integrated merchandise and profitability analysis, and rules-based space planning. the Informix database technology allows VF to manage images and CAD drawings, access heterogeneous systems, and scale to meet future data requirements. guide-p.infoseek.com =informix&col=NW You may have to splice the link if it splits, sorry. *******************************************************