INFORMIX AND DAOU TECHNOLOGY TO FORM JOINT VENTURE

Informix Expands Leadership in Korean Market

SEOUL, Korea (Apr. 3, 1995) -- Informix Corporation (NASDAQ:IFMX) today
announced that it has agreed to form a joint venture to acquire the
database division of Daou Technology, Inc. of Korea. The joint venture, to
be called Informix Daou Korea Ltd., will be owned 80 percent by Informix
and 20 percent by Daou.

The formation of the joint venture and the acquisition of the division, a
part of Informix's continued efforts to expand its leadership in the
Korean market, are expected to be completed today. Ik Rae Kim, president
and CEO of Daou Technology, Inc., will act as chairman of Informix Daou
Korea Ltd. S. I. Lee, the general manager of Informix Software Korea,
Ltd., has been named general manager of Informix Daou Korea Ltd., and will
be responsible for managing day-to-day operations of the new joint
venture.

Daou has been very successful in establishing Informix as one of the top
relational database management system (RDBMS) vendors in the Korean
market. As the leading Korean distributor of open systems products, they
have had the rights to market, sell, and support Informix's full suite of
RDBMS products throughout Korea since 1986.

"Informix and Daou have had a mutually beneficial partnership in Korea for
nearly a decade, " said Phillip E. White, chairman and CEO, Informix. "We
anticipate tremendous growth in the Korean database market, and the joint
venture between Informix and Daou will position us to greatly expand our
distribution and provide better support to our partners and customers."

"This joint venture will combine Informix's industry-leading technology
with the technical strength and experience Daou has built over the last
decade," said Mr. Kim. "I am confident that this new relationship will
enable Informix to maintain leadership in the Korean market and will
enhance service and support for our current and future customers. "

Results of the Transaction

Informix Daou Ltd. will expand Informix's resources to meet the anticipated
growth in the Korean open systems database market. The expansion will
include increasing the staff by 150 percent, acquiring larger offices, and
establishing a new customer education center to provide training for end
users and partners. "This is the right time for us to expand our
resources," said Mr. Lee. "Customer support is becoming a key success
factor in the Korean market and with our new support facility we will
provide far better support than any other DBMS vendor in this market."
Informix Daou Korea Ltd. also plans to expand its presence in key vertical
industries such as banking and finance, telecom, government, manufacturing
and retail.

About Daou

Daou Technology Inc. is the leading software company in Korea and in
addition to Informix products, distributes CASE tools, multimedia software
and other software products for UNIX, MS/DOS and Windows. Since 1986, Daou
has promoted Informix products and has succeeded in positioning Informix
as one of the prominent RDBMS in the Korean market.

About Informix

Informix Software, Inc., the operating subsidiary of Informix Corporation,
is the leading supplier of high performance, parallel processing database
technology for open systems. The company's database servers are the number
one choice of computer hardware manufacturers for publishing Transaction
Processing Council (TPC) benchmarks for UNIX-based systems. Informix
products also include application development tools for creating
client/server production applications, decision support systems and ad-hoc
query interfaces, and connectivity software that allows information to be
shared transparently from PCs to mainframes within the corporate computing
environment. The company's corporate headquarters is in Menlo Park,
California.

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