LYNXOS INTRODUCED FOR INFORMIX PRODUCTS

Informix Relational Database to support true real time will allow common
applications across UNIX, WindowsNT, MS-Windows, LynxOS

July 29, 1994 - LOS GATOS, CALIF. - For the first time ever, developers can
now integrate mainstream database capabilities with mission critical, hard
real-time applications on a single hardware platform using the new
versions of Informix database products now available for LynxOS.

Before this announcement, developers who needed a no-compromises solution
had to run their database application on one UNIX platform and the
real-time applications on another. This two-box solution not only carried
a cost penalty, but needlessly complicates software development and
hardware integration.

Important for Video-on-demand and Interactive Video Shopping

The new single-box solution is particularly important for developing
applications for video-on-demand and interactive video shopping as well as
for traditional real-time applications such as robotics and factory
automation.

Informix for LynxOS is available from Cupertino, Calif.-based InfoSoft,
Inc., who will distribute, sell and support Informix products running on
LynxOS.

Informix Becomes the First to Offer True Real-time Capabilities

Through this offering, Informix becomes the first and only leading
relational database and application development tool supplier to offer
true real-time capabilities. Because Informix runs on UNIX, WindowsNT,
Microsoft Windows, and now LynxOS, this will allow development of a common
set of applications across all these operating systems.

"As real-time increasingly moves into the mainstream with such new
applications as multimedia, video servers and new communications
technologies, developers must provide powerful ways to store and retrieve
the large amounts of data generated," said Informix President Phil White.

"The availability of Informix on LynxOS means that developers now have a
powerful, fully featured database system which is portable among every
major platform and is now optimized to give the best real-time
performance," White added.

Informix running under the LynxOS environment takes advantage of
capabilities such as set task priority levels and other features which
make the Informix products suitable for even the most time-sensitive and
performance-critical real-time applications.

"It doesn't matter how fast or how deterministic your real-time kernel is,
if your applications software, device drivers and operating system
facilities are not also deterministic and truly real-time'" said Lynx
President, Dr. Inder Singh.

Currently available under LynxOS are:

Informix SEAn -- easy to use, low maintenance, "load and go" database
server. it provides excellent performance, data consistency, client-server
capabilities, and SQL compliance with minimal database administration.
Advanced features such as roll-forwards, roll-backwards and triggers are
also provided.

C-ISAM -- Informix's indexed sequential access method library of C
functions for creating and using indexed sequential files.

Informix-ESQL/C -- For embedding SQL statements directly into C code.

Informix-4GL -- A comprehensive fourth-generation application development
and production environment that provides abundant power and flexibility,
including character and graphical user interfaces, as well as
client/server and OLTP capabilities.

Informix-SQLA -- complete database application development tool suite. It
includes: a schema editor, menu builder, SQL editor, forms builder, and
report writer.

Informix-NET -- Creates a client/server connection between an Informix
database server on a host machine and an Informix application development
tool, such as Informix-ESQL/C, Informix-4GL, and Informix-SQL on a client
computer.

Two additional products; Informix-On Line and Informix-STAR will be made
available on the LynxOS operating environment later in 1994.

For additional information on any of the products listed above, call
InfoSoft at +1 408 366 0900 or Lynx at +1 408 879 3900.

For more information, contact sales@lynx.com, or call 1-800-255-LYNX or +1
408 879 3900.
 
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