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IBM, on the strength of last year's acquisition of Informix Software Inc. and growth in its DB2 database sales, seized the worldwide database market share lead in 2001, according to […]

IBM, on the strength of last year's acquisition of Informix Software Inc. and growth in its DB2 database sales, seized the worldwide database market share lead in 2001, according to […]

Informix spin-off Ascential Software Inc. last week said it's buying privately held data-cleansing software vendor Vality Technology Inc. for about $92 million in cash. The deal, slated to close in […]

Somers, N.Y. IBM has finished work on the code for the next version of its flagship DB2 database software - the first version to incorporate technology gained from the company's […]

Customers of Informix database software can sleep a little easier. IBM, which has promised to continue supporting Informix software since acquiring the company last month, provided a timetable last week […]

IBM signaled continued support for Informix database products following the planned $1 billion acquisition of the company. A new white paper, "Informix Portfolio: Future Directions" (available for download at ibm.com/software/data/informix/directions.html), […]

IBM completed its $1 billion acquisition of the database assets of Informix Software. IBM's primary reason for acquiring the company was installed base; Informix's 12 percent market share of Unix […]

IBM completed last week its acquisition of Informix, formerly the fourth-largest player in the shrinking field of database vendors. IBM is adding 2,500 Informix employees in sales, marketing, and development […]

Why Informix? Why would IBM buy Informix? Except for IBM's Universe and UniData multi-dimensional databases, DB2 and the original Informix databases are very similar products. However, Universe and UniData, the […]

Strengthening its position in the burgeoning distributed database market, Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM Corp. announced it will acquire Menlo Park, Calif.-based Informix Software Inc., Informix Corp.'s database business, in a cash […]

If IBM's services business pulls IBM's software business along with it-as company chairman and CEO Lou Gerstner said last week in his annual update to analysts-just what is it pulling? […]

IBM agreed to buy Informix's failing database business for $1 billion in cash. The lure was its roster of more than 100,000 customers, including big names such as Sears Roebuck, […]

In a way, it's sad that ibm purchased informix. the troubled but innovative underdog of a company had quite a following. On the other hand, if anyone had to do […]

IBM is laying down $1 billion in cash for the database business of one-time market leader Informix Software. Analysts say Big Blue is laying down the gauntlet in a challenge [...]

James Rogers and cw360.com's Emma Nash find out what the future holds for Informix following IBM's acquisition of the company IBM's billion-dollar acquisition of database specialist Informix has been greeted […]

By agreeing to acquire the database business of Informix Software for $1 billion in cash last week, IBM more than doubled its share of the market for Unix databases and […]

LOOKING BACK_ Each week, crn.com brings you the latest breaking news stories as they are happening. Here's a rundown of some of the stories we reported on last week: IBM […]

Boston - IBM's proposed $1 billion buyout of Informix may have been the most public move in the database wars last week. But the three market leaders-Oracle, Microsoft and IBM-also […]

Armonk, N.Y. - IBM is betting $1 billion that its acquisition of Informix's database business will give it the lead in what is now a neck-and-neck horse race with Oracle […]

IBM's cash statement Cash-rich IBM raised the ante in the distributed database market last week with its $1 billion offer to buy Informix Software's database business and its 100,000 customers. […]

ARMONK, N.Y. - There is reason for Informix customers to be both relieved and nervous in the wake of last week's announcement by IBM that it plans to buy Informix's […]

IBM SPENT A cool $1 billion in cash last week to buy Informix in an attempt to delve deeper into the Unix and Windows database markets. Big Blue has also […]

IBM entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Informix Software, a Menlo Park-based database company, in a cash transaction valued at $1 billion. The acquisition will widen [...]

IBM is to acquire database supplier Informix Software in a cash deal valued at $1 bn. Under the terms of the agreement, which is subject to the usual regulatory procedures. […]

Business software maker SAP AG has agreed to acquire TopTier Software, a portal software company, for $400 million. The cash deal, which is expected to be finalized in the second […]

Informix Software has pledged to support the UniVerse and UniData database products developed by Ardent Software, which Informix recently acquired, said Ralph Breslauer, vice president/marketing for Informix's Transact Business Group. [...]

The recent purchase of Ardent Software by the Informix Software Corp. has caused ripples of concern throughout the wholesale distribution software industry. Ardent is the developer of the UniVerse and [...]

Menlo Park, Calif.-based Informix, the No.3 database-software maker, agreed to buy Ardent Software of Westborough for $880 million in stock, gaining software to add customers in the fast-growing e-commerce market. [...]

Database vendor Informix this week announced a definitive agreement to acquire data warehousing provider Ardent Software in a stock swap deal valued at $880 million. Under the terms of the […]

Thinking small: Informix, the only major data management vendor without a play in the promising mobile and embedded database markets, acquired privately held Cloudscape Inc., which counts ex-Informix and ex-Illustra […]

Informix yesterday announced that it is finally going to move into the remote and embedded database market by purchasing Cloudscape. Informix's main database rivals, including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sybase […]

Informix Software's decision to acquire faltering Red Brick Systems Inc. is more than just an indication that the former may now be done licking its wounds and ready to assert […]

Users of Informix Software Inc.'s OLTP database could get stronger data warehousing capabilities as the result of the company's purchase of Red Brick Systems Inc. The $35 million deal, announced […]

Database firm Informix has signed an agreement to acquire data warehouse supplier Red Brick as it seeks to bolster its core business. 'We intend to offer the market the most […]

Informix hopes there is truth in the adage 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,' revealing a plan last week to buy troubled data warehouse solution company […]

For years, at least at the desktop level, it seemed as if the database market clung to DOS and dBase architecture while other applications raced to Windows and multimedia. But […]

Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, Calif., enhanced its bid to unseat other relational database leaders in late December when it agreed to acquire Oakland, Calif.-based Illustra Information Technologies. Object database […]

Informix Software Inc., looking to round out its data-warehousing line, is negotiating to acquire Stanford Technology Group Inc. for its OLAP tools. Officials for both companies declined comment, but sources […]

IntelliCorp Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.), a publicly held expert system development tool vendor, h agreement with Informix Corp. (Menlo Park, Calif.), a supplier of distributed database management sy under which […]