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A Unix database vendor based in Menlo Park, California, USA. The company was one of the first ISV to deliver a product on the OS/2 market, and the first to deliver a database product in the form of the SQL Informix Database and related toolsets in January 1988, beating out main competitor and arch enemy Oracle by a few months. However after IBM and Microsoft started delivering their own multi user database products for OS/2 a year later, coinciding with the arrival of a new hyper-competitive Informix CEO called Phillip E. White, the company changed its stance on the platform completely and used every opportunity to mention its unimportance, despite that Informix continued to update their OS/2 offerings into the latter half of the 90's.

History

**Informix Wingz**
An 1990 advert announcing the availability of versions of the Wingz spreadsheet for Windows 3.0 and OS/2

Company was founded in 1980 by Roger Sippl and Laura King as Relational Database Systems with their first product being an ISAM based database product called "Marathon" that was available for sundry 8 bit Z80 and 16 bit Z8000 business systems. One of their customers and distributors was a vendor of S100 based business computer systems called Onyx Systems, they had a CP/M Z80 system called C8000 that could be outfitted with an optional Z8000 board. The board, while powerful lacked software, the company had ported their own Cobol system for it and they had ported a version of Unix to the board.

Changed its name to Informix in 1986.

Known products

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-A Unix database vendor based in Menlo Park, California, USA. The company was one of the first [[ISV]] to deliver a product on the OS/2 market, and the first to deliver a database product in the form of the SQL [[Informix Database]] and related toolsets in January 1988, beating out main competitor and arch enemy [[Oracle]] by a few months. However after [[IBM]] and [[Microsoft]] started delivering their own multi user database products to the OS/2 market a year later, coinciding with the arrival of a new hyper-competitive Informix CEO called Phillip E. White, the company changed its stance on the platform completely and used every opportunity to mention its unimportance, despite that Informix continued to update their OS/2 offerings into the latter half of the 90's.
+A Unix database vendor based in Menlo Park, California, USA. The company was one of the first [[ISV]] to deliver a product on the OS/2 market, and the first to deliver a database product in the form of the SQL [[Informix Database]] and related toolsets in January 1988, beating out main competitor and arch enemy [[Oracle]] by a few months. However after [[IBM]] and [[Microsoft]] started delivering their own multi user database products for OS/2 a year later, coinciding with the arrival of a new hyper-competitive Informix CEO called Phillip E. White, the company changed its stance on the platform completely and used every opportunity to mention its unimportance, despite that Informix continued to update their OS/2 offerings into the latter half of the 90's.
 ==History==
 [[Image:Wingzad.jpg|200px|thumb|right|'''Informix Wingz'''<br>An 1990 advert announcing the availability of versions of the Wingz spreadsheet for Windows 3.0 and OS/2]]
-Company was founded in 1980 by Roger Sippl and Laura King as '''Relational Database Systems''' with their first product being an [[ISAM]] based database product called "Marathon" that was available for sundry 8 bit [[Z80]] and 16 bit [[Z8000]] business systems. One of their customers and distributors was a vendor of [[S100]] based business computer systems called [[Onyx Systems]], they had a [[CP/M]] Z80 system called C8000 that could be outfitted with an optional Z8000 board.
+Company was founded in 1980 by Roger Sippl and Laura King as '''Relational Database Systems''' with their first product being an [[ISAM]] based database product called "Marathon" that was available for sundry 8 bit [[Z80]] and 16 bit [[Z8000]] business systems. One of their customers and distributors was a vendor of [[S100]] based business computer systems called [[Onyx Systems]], they had a [[CP/M]] Z80 system called C8000 that could be outfitted with an optional Z8000 board. The board, while powerful lacked software, the company had ported their own [[Cobol]] system for it and they had ported a version of [[Unix]] to the board.
 Changed its name to Informix in 1986.