Informix Software Inc has signed a pan-European contract with Digital Equipment Corp to supply its relational database software – Informix-Online and Informix-SE – for DEC’s Ultrix systems and Alpha-based machines. Under the terms of the $9m contract, customers will be able to buy Informix products from DEC as well as from DEC’s traditional resellers. Informix’s full line of development tools will also be supplied including the developers toolkit, Informix-4GL, Informix-SQL and the Wingz graphical spreadsheet. Communications products offered on DEC Unix-based systems will include Informix-Star, which works with Informix-Online to deliver distributed database capabilities; and Informix-Net, which provides connections for Informix database software in a client-server architecture.
