IBM Corp’s Distributed Relational Database Architecture is starting to pick up acolytes, and Informix Software Inc, Menlo Park has announced Informix-Gateway with DRDA, claiming that this makes it the first major Unix database vendor fully to support the IBM architecture. The company has also committed to supporting the distributed unit-of-work level of the specification. The first release of Informix-Gateway will be Unix-based and is to support links to IBM’s Systems Application Architecture databases so that Informix users can transparently access DB2 data bases. It also announced that its family of database information management software products is now shipping for SunSoft Inc’s Solaris 2.1 version of Unix. Single user pricing for Informix-OnLine under Solaris 2.1 is from $3,300 and a single user Informix- 4GL licence costs $2,150.
