Newport Beach, CA — July 12th, 2003 — Strategy 7 Corporation, a value-added reseller for IBM’s Data Management group of products, has announced today that it will supply New York based Lyon Mercantile Group, LTD with IDS licenses. The Lyon Mercantile Group has over 100 years of service in commercial credit information, credit rating databases and monitoring. Strategy 7 Corporation will integrate IBM’s Informix Dynamic Server infrastructure and database management system.

Strategy 7 Corporation, known for its multi-value and relational data base expertise, recommended IBM IDS due to its rapid and flexible integration.

IBM IDS delivers proven technology that efficiently integrates new and complex data directly into the server. It handles time-series, geospatial, geodetic, XML, video, image, and other user-defined data--side by side with traditional legacy data--to meet the most rigorous data and business demands.

IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) provides a database that combines the robustness, high performance, and scalability of the IBM Informix flagship relational database management system
(RDBMS) with advanced object-relational technology to store, retrieve, and manage rich data intelligently and efficiently.

Strategy 7 has been a value-added reseller of the Informix Product Line since 1994. Specializing in applying expertise for IBM Informix, DB2 and Multi-Valued Databases (U2) to operate seamlessly on open systems platforms independent of operating systems, Strategy 7 provides customers with proactive product updates working with them to preserve and build on their technology investments.

Today, nearly 800,000 individual people depend on Strategy 7 product and maintenance services.

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