Random Sequential Access Method
Informix Corporation was a software company located in Menlo Park, California. It was a developer of relational database software for computers using the Unix, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Macintosh operating systems. Timeline * 1980: Relational Database Systems Inc. was created by Roger Sippl.''International Directory of Company Histories'', Vol. 30, p. 243. Referenced i"History of Informix Corporation – FundingUniverse" "Originally named Relational Database Systems Inc., this software company was founded by 25-year-old entrepreneur Roger J. Sippl. ... In 1980 Sippl invested $200,000 in the new company and became its president, chief executive officer, and chairman." * 1986: The company changed its name to Informix Corporation and went public, raising $9 million. * 1989: Phillip E. White took over as chief executive. * 1996: Informix acquired Illustra Information Technologies, an object/relational database company. ''Universal Web Architecture'', which makes use of ''Illust ...
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Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists of machine language instructions supported by an individual processor—typically a central processing unit (CPU) or a graphics processing unit (GPU). Machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying processor instructions that change the state of the computer from its preceding state. For example, an instruction may change the value stored in a particular storage location in the computer—an effect that is not directly observable to the user. An instruction may also invoke one of many input or output operations, for example displaying some text on a computer screen; causing state changes which should be visible to the user. The processor executes the instructions in the order they are provided, unless it is instructed ...
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