MEDIA ALERT

Contact: Dave Costello, DCI Media Relations
(508) 470-3870

The Universal Server Championship Debate:
Informix vs. Oracle

BACKGROUND:

Informix has its sights set on being the database server champ, a title currently held by Oracle. Informix believes its knockout punch is "datablades" and extended data types in its engine. Oracle counterpunches with assertions that Informix users will knock themselves out with faulty user-written code while guaranteeing that its solution, "data cartridges," are "non-cutting." Each company is convinced that its database server should be recognized as the industry standard.

WHO:

Information technology and business editors covering database servers plus network computers, database, client/server, Year 2000, and related issues.

WHAT:

The Universal Server Championship Debate at DCI's Database & Client/Server World

WHEN:

May 20 to 22, 1997

WHERE:

Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA

WHY:

The debate will feature two of the industry's heaviest hitters: Informix's Chief Technical Officer, Mike Stonebraker; and Oracle's Senior Vice President of Server Technologies, Jerry Held. Both men hold Ph.D's from Berkeley and will aggressively defend their positions.

George Schussel, CEO and Founder of DCI and Chairman of DCI's Database & Client/Server World, will moderate.

ROUND TWO:

A second debate moderated by George Schussel, "Has the Internet Killed Client Server," will also be held. Participating will be John Landry, Narrative Communications; Gerry Cohen, Information Builders; Marc Benioff, Oracle Corporation; and Rich Finkelstein, Performance Computing, Inc.

HOW TO REGISTER:

Call Dave Costello, DCI, (508) 470-3870, or e-mail at dcostello@dciexpo.com.

DCI's DATABASE & CLIENT/SERVER WORLD is the premier event in the database industry. Other conferences and presentations will include: Network Computers, Data Warehouses/Data Mining, Java Beans/ActiveX, Internet/Intranet/Extranets, Year 2000, and much more.