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History: INFORMIX
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Informix is a relational
database and for almost 20 years was also the name of the
company who developed it. Informix DBMS was a development of the
pioneering Ingres system that also
led to Sybase and SQL Server, and was
the #2 database system behind Oracle for some
time in the 1990s. Their brush with success was surprisingly
short-lived however, and by 2000 a series of management blunders
had all but destroyed the company. In 2001 they were
purchased by IBM in order to gain access
to Informix's existing market share and customer base. Long term
plans to merge Informix technology with DB2 are in
place, since the Informix Arrowhead project is now called DB2
Arrowhead. IBM is also commited in
supporting older versions.
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