1. Examples are Informix 4GL, and Focus.

2. Informix can crank out 000 rows in 1 second because of its advanced buffer pool management and industrial strength architecture.

3. Cooperative application development with shared data should be possible via the open repository strategy that Informix has outlined - see above.

4. 24 IBM Informix Server V70 introduces star join optimization that utilizes push-down hash join technology to improve query performance for decision support queries on star and snowflake schemas.