Informix bounces back with imminent Web tool delivery

Informix is expected to reveal plans to launch its Data Director for the Web next week, expanding its range of internet applications.

The product, which adds to the family of the Data Director tools for Java and Visual Basic, allows developers to build database-enabled Web applications with the HTML authoring tool of their choice. It will be launched at Internet World 97.

It will also provide an interface between the HTML tool and the database, embedding SQL code in the HTML page, so that users can execute a database query from a browser.

The Windows-based tool only hooks into Informix databases, however, and is due to ship later this month.

Informix also plans to unveil its Web Integration Option for Dynamic Server, which combines two former products - Universal Web Connect, which links Websites to a back-end database, and a Web Datablade for storing Website content directly into the database.

The product comes at a crucial time for the database vendor, which has been forced to restate its results for the past three years as it revealed that Q3 figures were worse than expected. As a result, the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation (PC Dealer, 26 November).