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To: Nancy W who wrote (9051)	4/21/1998 8:27:00 AM
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Informix Announces Record BAAN IVc Benchmark Results; Breakthrough Performance Reinforces Informix Leadership With Enterprise Resource Planning Systems DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1998--Informix(R) Corporation, (NASDAQ:IFMX), the leader in innovative database technology, today announced a record-setting total of 7,503 BRU (Baan Reference Users) in a client/server benchmark on BAAN IVc. The results were the first ever published for Baan on the Hewlett Packard 64 bit operating system (HP-UX 11.0) running on a 64 bit RDBMS. These results reinforce Informix's technology leadership in the Enterprise Resource Planning marketplace. "Customers demand the ability to support larger number of users as their supply chains grow," said Jim Tillinghast, executive director for Global VARs at Informix. "We're excited about the benchmark results because they clearly demonstrate Informix's capability to support users across the supply chain up to the largest enterprises with near linear scalability." The record BAAN IVc benchmark was performed with engineers from Informix, Baan and HP and was completed utilizing Informix Dynamic Server(TM) 7.24 on a 16-way HP 9000 V2250 Enterprise Server with 16 gigabytes of memory running EMC 3430 enterprise storage devices. The benchmark, which was achieved at HP headquarters in Cupertino, resulted in a 15% increase over the previous record held by Oracle. "The teamwork from all three companies enabled us to achieve this industry-breakthrough benchmark result," said Wes Raffel, vice president of North American Field Operations and Global Partners at Informix . "This benchmark demonstrates a joint commitment from Informix, Baan and HP to customers that rely on Enterprise Resource Planning systems to maintain competitive advantage." Informix and Baan have been in close partnership since 1995 when both companies agreed to joint engineering and business development which has resulted in several additional milestones in 1997: -0- T -- Opening of a Joint Competency Center in Barneveld, Holland -- Baan ERP practice started within Informix Enterprise Consulting Services -- Marketplace recognition as Baan's "Preferred RDBMS" for UNIX and NT -- Over 33,000 joint Baan/Informix licenses sold T -0- About Informix Informix Corporation, the world's database technology leader, based in Menlo Park, California, provides innovative database products that assist the world's major corporations to attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing applications. Informix's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of major information technology solution areas including data warehousing, OLTP, and Web/content management. For more information visit the Web site at informix.com. -0- Note to Editors: Informix news releases are available at no charge through Business Wire's NewsOnDemand fax service. To immediately receive an index of available releases, call 1-800-356-0851. (c)1998 Informix Corporation. All rights reserved. The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its affiliates: Informix(R), Informix Dynamic Server. CONTACT: Informix Software, Inc. Jaye Prosser, 650/926-6316 jprosser@informix.com informix.com To edit your profile, go to keyword NewsProfiles. For all of today's news, go to keyword News