Hewlett-Packard Co has signed a joint reseller agreement with Informix Software Ltd under which Hewlett will resell Informix’s relational-database management system and spreadsheet products on HP 9000 systems throughout the UK: a spokesman for Hewlett-Packard said this relationship would in no way compromise its dealings with Oracle Corp, Ingres Corp or Sybase Inc adding that other negotations (with these companies) are in the pipeline; the deal will not effect sales of AllBase SQL under HP/UX as such sales are made for MPE compatibility reasons; it is believed that Hewlett-Packard struck the agreement because Informix has no direct sales force in the UK.
