Cornell University Selects Informix for "Project 2000"; Data Warehousing Project Will Enable University to Track and Analyze Trends.

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1996--Informix Software, Inc., (NASDAQ: IFMX) the leading provider of innovative database technology, today announced that Cornell University has selected INFORMIX(R)-OnLine Dynamic Server(TM) as its core database for "Project 2000," a university-wide reengineering effort that will decrease the cost of administration and increase information access and service to the university's community of 30,000 students and faculty members.

Cornell's campus-wide administration systems -- including human resources/payroll, finance, student information, sponsored programs, and alumni/development -- will run on an Informix database and PeopleSoft's application software, increasing access to information and eliminating duplication of efforts.

A data warehouse project will facilitate access to data and enable more complex queries and richer reports, improving service and increasing the university's business. Deans and senior administrators will be able to track trends such as the relationship between acceptance rates and the influence of financial aid packages offered to applicants. The university will be able to analyze trends in class registrations, and adjust course offerings accordingly.

Cornell will connect its campus-wide information systems to their Informix database. Cornell's information systems are on the World Wide Web at http://www.cornell.com and includes such data as class schedules, events listings, and alumni information.

"Cornell made a strategic decision to use relational database technology very broadly in order to reinvent its administration practices and serve students as a "best managed university," said Helen Mohrman, director of administration systems and distributed technologies at Cornell University. "We needed a scalable database to support multiple functions and deliver valuable information to students and faculty. Informix, through its industry-leading technology and close partnership with PeopleSoft, puts valuable information in users' hands."

About Cornell University

Cornell University is one of America's great private and public teaching and research universities -- a member of the Ivy League with an endowment of about $1.5 billion and the federal land-grant institution of New York State. Today Cornell continues to live up to the aspirations of co-founder Ezra Cornell, who envisioned "an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." A total of 19,000 students are enrolled in seven undergraduate and four graduate and professional units on the university's main campus in Ithaca, New York. The university also has an agricultural experiment station in Geneva, N.Y., and a medical college in New York City.

About Informix

Informix Software, based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides innovative database technology that enables the world's leading corporations to manage and grow their business. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from workgroups to very large OLTP and data warehouse applications. Informix's database servers, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of many leading-edge information technology solution areas.

With the acquisition of Illustra Information Technology's completely extensible database technology, Informix is now positioned as the first information management company capable of meeting the market's exploding need for a sophisticated database engine that combines enterprise scalability, robustness and parallel processing with the ability to store, retrieve, manage and manipulate virtually any kind of rich content data. More information about Informix is available via the World Wide Web at http://www.informix.com and http://www.illustra.com. -0-

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