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A black swan is an event or occurrence that “deviates beyond what is normally expected of a situation and is extremely difficult to predict”; the term was popularised by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. We have titled this paper “IBM Informix: the white swan” not just because the use of the Informix database should help users to sleep well at night (SWAN) but also because the entire history of Informix makes that outcome entirely predictable.#Informix