Informix is a family of RDBMS products from IBM, acquired in 2001 from a company (also called Informix or Informix Software) which dates its origins back to 1980.

The Informix DBMS started from the pioneering Ingres system that also led to Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server. For a period during the 1990s Informix was the second most popular database system, after Oracle. Success did not last very long, however, and by 2000 a series of management blunders had significantly weakened the company financially.

In 2001 IBM, prompted by a suggestion from Wal-Mart ^* (Informix's largest customer), purchased Informix. IBM has long-term plans for both Informix and DB2, with both databases sharing technology with each other. In early 2005, IBM released version 10 of Informix IDS.

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