We believe in open architecture. We are committed to our open component strategy. Open components provide companies with existing technologies an opportunity to choose only the pieces they need – providing the best solution. We believe in giving our customers the choices, guidance and assurance they expect and need to run a successful e-business.

In 1999, we deployed an impressive portfolio of products and solutions for the Internet. In several instances, there are no comparable solutions that are available to provide the level of flexible, scalable and reliable performance required on the Internet. Early market acceptance for those products and solutions has been strong both domestically and internationally.

	Informix Internet Foundation.2000TM, in production in September, is the first database built from the ground up for the Internet; fully object-relational, today it powers sites that accept tens of millions of hits every day with unsurpassed reliability.
	Cloudscape, added to the Informix portfolio in October, is the fundamental technology for occasionally connected Web devices.
	i.Reach, introduced in January, has become a popular corporate repository and Web publishing solution by leveraging the power of object-relational technology.