Central Bank of the Russian Federation standardizes on Informix.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)--Nov. 1, 1994--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 leading provider of parallel processing database technology, Tuesday announced that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) has selected Informix database technology as its standard database for a five-year, multi-million dollar downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs. (2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system. (jargon) downsizing project, replacing a wide range of proprietary systems. Informix will supply its entire product line of database servers and tools for company-wide information management and logistics control. The Bank of Russia will implement INFORMIX-OnLine and INFORMIX-SE database servers, INFORMIX 4GL and INFORMIX-ESQL development tools, the C-ISAM programming library, as well as INFORMIX-HyperScript Tools and INFORMIX-ViewPoint and Informix connectivity products. The Bank of Russia has chosen Sun, AT&T GIS and Intel platforms for the 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). implementation. The contract is one of the largest ever for information technology in the former Soviet Union. "Informix will support both core processing and customer service in the Bank of Russia's new technology infrastructure," said Steve Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer". It may refer to:
"The Bank of Russia joins more than 160 financial services organizations worldwide who have selected Informix as the supplier of choice as they move their mission-critical core business functions to open systems." Westmount Technology's I-CASE (Integrated-CASE) CASE systems that generate applications code directly from design specifications. Features include support for rapid prototyping, modeling the data and processing and drawing logic diagrams. I-CASE - Integrated CASE. Another term for an IPSE. Yourdon technology will also be integrated in the system to enable easy adaptation of applications in response to rapid changes in Russia's legislation. Westmount's product will provide full project life cycle support, seamless target integration and generate client/server applications with Informix tools. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has 100,000 employees. Forty thousand of them are computer users. The bank has 78 regional central banks. There are eight development centers for the bank's own applications. Informix in Banking Informix is committed to the unique needs of the banking industry, providing scalable, high performance, high availability, interoperable, secure databases for both front- and back-end open systems-based solutions. Informix has more than 160 banking and finance clients worldwide, using Informix database technology for applications such as: banking branch automation, integrated trading systems, F/X F/X Effects settlements, credit card processing, asset liability management, mortgage loan processing, stock piling and financial analysis, portfolio management, brokerage, and money management. 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's corporate headquarters is based in Menlo Park. CONTACT: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park Anne Lenaghan, 415/926-6891 |
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