$2.0 billion dollar natural resources company chooses Informix-NEWERA for Enterprise Application Development; Freeport-McMoRan to use new Informix Database tool to develop core applications for its divisions.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 1995--Informix Software, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ), the leader in parallel processing database technology, today announced that Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FTX (Fault Tolerant UNIX) Stratus Computer's version of Unix System V for its XA/R fault tolerant computer systems. See also FTTx. (operating system) FTX - Stratus' Unix operating system. ) a premier developer engaged in the exploration, mining, processing, and marketing of natural resources, has selected INFORMIX(R)-NewEra(TM) for developing database applications to support its enterprise divisions worldwide. This new deal continues a commitment to Informix database technology as the standard at Freeport-McMoRan for both relational database servers and application development tools. In early 1993, Freeport-McMoRan initially standardized on INFORMIX-OnLine database servers and INFORMIX-4GL development tool for its project to downsize Downsize Reducing the size of a company by eliminating workers and/or divisions within the company. Notes: When a company downsizes, it is attempting to find ways to improve efficiency and increase profitability. It is sometimes referred to as trimming the fat. database applications off their mainframe environment to UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . INFORMIX-NewEra, Informix's new second generation, object-oriented client/server development environment, will be used to reengineer Freeport-McMoRan's existing production applications, in the areas of finance, and materials management. Other applications such as a human resources/payroll application, currently written in INFORMIX-4GL, will be migrated over to the new graphical development environment as well. Andersen Consulting, a leading systems integrator and Informix partner, will assist in the reengineering effort through an applications outsourcing arrangement with Freeport-McMoRan. The project calls for a 1-2 year period for both development and deployment of NewEra applications for Freeport-McMoRan, located at five major sites worldwide. "We spent a considerable amount of time looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the right application development environment for us," said Steve Bellis, director, Corporate Management Information Systems. Freeport-McMoran needed a GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. environment that was robust enough for use throughout its affiliates. "We think NewEra will give us the flexibility and scalability to scale our application environment as our business grows, while handling the complex functions and number of users we want to incorporate into our distributed system. NewEra can adapt to our changing business environment." "NewEra will provide many more advantages over Freeport-McMoRan's existing proprietary systems," said Geoff Roach, director of marketing, application development tools, Informix. "Freeport-McMoRan will be able to build graphical applications quickly and easily to distribute across their worldwide sites, without compromising performance. "They will have the ability to extend the functionality of their applications to take advantage of a true object-oriented programming environment. And they can feel confident that NewEra will have the power to support their move to a distributed client/server environment." About INFORMIX-NewEra INFORMIX-NewEra is Informix's new object-oriented client/server application development environment for enterprise computing. The product features a powerful and flexible database application language, productive visual programming tools, support for team-oriented development, reusable class libraries, and flexible application deployment, all within a client/server-ready package that supports open connectivity to Informix and non-Informix relational databases. Today, a wide range of customers are using NewEra to create graphical applications for enterprisewide deployment. Some of these customers include: Kuwait Petroleum, Swedish Military Draft Board, Cray Systems, Royal Navy, U.S. Navy, Computer 2000 in Spain, Utell in the UK, and strategic Informix Value-Added Partners, such as Concepts Dynamic, Inc., TECSYS, Inc., and Relevant Business Systems, Inc. About Freeport-McMoRan Freeport-McMoRan is one of the premier natural resource companies in the world, engaged in the exploration, development, mining, production, processing, and marketing of natural resources. Principal products include copper, gold, silver, phosphate fertilizers, phosphate rock, sulfur, and oil. Affiliates include Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE:FCX FCX French Connexion (gaming site) FCX Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc (stock symbol) FCX Fuel Cell Experiment (Honda) FCX Fire Coordination Exercise FCX Fire Control Exercise ), one of the world's largest and lowest cost copper/gold producers. Freeport-McMoRan Resource Partners, Limited Partnership (NYSE:FRP FRP Fremskrittspartiet (Norwegian: Progress Party; political party) FRP Fiberglass-Reinforced Plastic FRP Fiber Reinforced Polymer FRP Fibre Reinforced Polymer FRP Fleet Response Plan (US Navy) ), through its joint venture with IMC (Internet Mail Consortium, Santa Cruz, CA, www.imc.org) An industry trade association founded in 1996 by Paul Hoffman and Dave Crocker that promotes Internet e-mail standards and features. Fertilizer, Inc., is the largest integrated and one of the lowest cost phosphate fertilizer producers in the world. FRP also produces oil at Main Pass Block 299, offshore Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east . The company also recently acquired Pennzoil Company's sulphur assets in the United States. About Informix Informix Software 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 (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of ) 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. Informix corporate headquarters is based in Menlo Park. -0- Informix is a registered trademark and NewEra is a trademark of Informix Software, Inc. All other companies mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturer. CONTACT: INFORMIX Jaye Prosser, 415/926-6316 Cunningham Communication Holly Hunter, 408/764-0791 |
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