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==History== | ==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]] | [[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]] | ||
[[Relational Database Systems]] changed its name to Informix in 1986. 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 90s. | [[Relational Database Systems]] changed its name to Informix in 1986. Informix merged with ''Innovative Software'' in 1987. | ||
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 90s. | |||
==OS/2 Products== | ==OS/2 Products== | ||
*Informix | *Informix-SQL | ||
*Informix-4GL | *Informix-4GL | ||
*Informix-ESQL | *Informix-ESQL | ||
Revision as of 14:21, 31 December 2020
An UNIX database vendor based in Menlo Park, California, USA.
History
An 1990 advert announcing the availability of versions of the Wingz spreadsheet for Windows 3.0 and OS/2
Relational Database Systems changed its name to Informix in 1986. Informix merged with Innovative Software in 1987.
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 90s.
OS/2 Products
- Informix-SQL
- Informix-4GL
- Informix-ESQL
- Wingz