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                  PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a) OF
                       THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

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                              INFORMIX CORPORATION
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     On May 14, 2001, the following email was sent to a stockholder of the
company by Peter Gyenes, the company's president, chief executive officer and
chairman of the board of directors, in response to an email the company received
from this stockholder:

Thanks a lot for your note. I appreciate you taking the time to write to us and
to express your point of view. I hope you've noticed from the press releases,
from the letter to stockholders on our web site, and from the numerous phone and
in person discussions we've had with stockholders of all types (including email
response to anyone who has contacted us by email, and including the road shows
to meet with institutional investors and analysts), that we are continually
reaching out to make sure our stockholders are fully informed as to the facts
and as to our thought process, and that stockholders' questions are fully
answered.

We will of course continue this process as has been our style, and in addition
we have taken steps of continual follow up to make sure that proxy recipients
are encouraged to vote in a timely manner.

We take our responsibility to keep our stockholders informed very seriously and
we are very encouraged at the feedback we have been receiving.

We remain very convinced of the value of this transaction to all constituencies
and invite all our stockholders to consider the tradeoffs as outlined in the
proxy and in our letter to stockholders of May 2 which can be found on our web
site.

Thanks a lot again for taking the time to contact us and for your support. I
hope you don't mind that I'm working to prove you wrong about ignoring your
email.

Best regards,

Peter