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虽然早有传闻IBM有收购Informix的意向,但4月25日事情发生之后,还是有些震惊,特别是Informix 7大类产品品牌整合在DB2业务中,IBM公司收购Informix的意图更加明显,大有不要产品,要客户之势。 Informix成立于1980年,21年来一直致力于UNIX、NT平台的数据库管理系统产品市场。1994年营业额约4亿美元,1997年营业额近10亿美元。也就是在Informix最辉煌的1997年5月,Informix决定从技术上甩开自己的竞争时手,朝着面向对象数据库开攻,毅然推出
Although it has long been rumored that IBM has intentions of acquiring Informix, it was still a bit shaky after the events of April 25, especially when the Informix 7 brand integrated into the DB2 business, and IBM intends to acquire Informix more clearly. Products, to the customer trend. Informix was founded in 1980, 21 years has been committed to the UNIX, NT platform database management system product market. The turnover in 1994 was about 400 million U.S. dollars and the turnover in 1997 was nearly 1 billion U.S. dollars. That is, in Informix’s most brilliant May 1997, Informix decided to technically throw off their own hands when the competition toward the object-oriented database, decided to launch