Informix Software to Port Foundation 2000 Products To HP-UX on Itanium; Informix Dynamic Server.2000 Port Demonstrates Increased Performance, Capacity, Scalability.Business/High Tech Editors 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)--Dec. 4, 2000 Informix(R) Software, the database company, a subsidiary of Informix(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ), today announced that it has optimized Informix Dynamic Server.2000(TM) (IDS 2000), the first of four members of the Informix Foundation 2000(TM) product line, for mission-critical Itanium-based servers running the HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . The port of Foundation 2000 products to the Itanium processor family architecture that was co-invented by Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel will increase performance, capacity and scalability for customers of Informix Software and HP. By porting IDS 2000 to HP-UX, Informix Software and HP are demonstrating their commitment to ensure ongoing return on investment for customers while allowing them to take advantage of new technology. Other Foundation 2000 products will be ported to HP-UX to coincide with HP's shipments of Itanium-based systems. Informix Foundation 2000 is a high-performance, fully extensible data and content management platform for the Internet. IDS 2000 is a transaction engine that can support thousands of users and provides the reliability, scalability and availability necessary for large transaction-processing systems. "Our efforts with HP will allow customers to migrate seamlessly to the Itanium family platform and realize better performance, greater capacity, and superior return on investment," said Brian Staff, vice president of marketing, Informix Software. "HP and Informix Software's efforts on the Foundation 2000 port demonstrate the benefits of the Itanium processor family architecture for mission-critical applications," said Nigel Ball, vice president and general manager of HP's E-Services Partner Division. "Informix Software's technology and HP's upcoming Itanium-based HP-UX servers will allow our customers to get much better performance from their software." About Informix Software Informix Software, the database company, is a leading provider of database-management systems for data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. and e-Business applications. With more than 100,000 customers worldwide, Informix Software delivers high-performance database systems in markets including retail, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , government, health care, manufacturing, media and publishing, and telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. . For more information, visit the Informix Web site at www.informix.com. (c)2000 Informix Corporation. All rights reserved. The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its affiliates, one or more of which may be registered in the U.S. or other jurisdictions: Informix(R), Informix Dynamic Server.2000(TM)and Foundation 2000(TM). HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group 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). 95 branded products. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group. |
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