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To: bob zagorin who wrote (9513)	2/17/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: Lou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

IFMX article regarding entry to middle market By reposter. Can you pose these following questions to the board: - How big is middleware market? - How big is it expected to be in future? - Who would be the competitors to this IFMX middleware offering? - What portion (percentage) of overall middleware market does this article suggest IFMX is going after? - Does this sound like a hot product ( I realize it is Universal Data Option,but does it sound like this will electrify the middleware market they are going after)? Informix delves into middleware market By Paul Krill InfoWorld Electric Posted at 6:59 AM PT, Feb 17, 1998 Informix Software in early March will reveal a strategy to position its object-relational database engine as middleware for transaction processing, one Informix executive said last week. Although details still are being mapped out, the plan isn't expected to deemphasize the company's core database business, according to Informix sources. Rather, the plan will stress that its object-relational product, the Universal Data Option to the Informix Dynamic Server database, also can support transactional, multitier applications, one Informix official said. The object-relational engine initially was built to manage new data types, such as multimedia, in the database. "We're looking forward to duking it out with people who are in the TP monitor business," said Michael Stonebraker, Informix chief technology officer, during a session at the DCI Internet Expo conference in San Jose, Calif., last week. Stonebraker previously has said that the object-relational engine could be used to deploy business logic. Informix likely will focus on reaching a new audience interested in Internet applications, said Wayne Kernochan, an analyst and senior vice president at the Aberdeen Group, in Boston. The object-relational system could support functions such as load-balancing for Internet application servers, he added. Kernochan recently was briefed by Informix. "It makes a lot of sense because what they're now calling the Universal Data Option is designed from the beginning for object-relational use, which means it's especially suited for combining the type of object support that the Internet needs with the type of relational support that allows you access to legacy back-end databases," Kernochan said.