Sybase wins Open Source World's 'editor's choice' awards for best Linux database

Our Corporate Bureau
10 January 2005

New Delhi: Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, has announced that its enterprise-class relational database management system, 'Sybase adaptive server enterprise' (ASE) for Linux, has won 'editor's choice' award instituted by Open Source World for the ''best Linux database.''

Sybase ASE won the publication's 'best SME Linux package award'' with ASE for Linux and ''Turbolinux 7-server'' at the same event in 2003.

According to Hu Wanjin, executive editor, Open Source World, "The 2004 'editor''s choice' award represents the different suggestions and comments from industry professionals, government officials, media and Open Source World readers."

He added, "Sybase ASE for Linux is user-friendly, provides excellent performance, security, scalability and is compatible with many applications. With these exceptional features, Sybase ASE for Linux has proven itself to be the best Linux database."

Sybase was among the first vendors to provide a client-server architecture relational database, and also among the first to bring a sophisticated database management technology and capabilities of enterprise level databases to the Linux platform. Since its free promotion in September 2004, there have been over 30,000 Sybase ASE Express Edition for Linux downloads from sybase.com.

"We are pleased to receive Open Source World's '2004 Editor's Choice Award'," said Mr. Raymond Teh, senior vice president and general manager of Sybase Asia Pacific. "This is the best New Year''s present for us and symbolises the users'' and general public''s recognition of Sybase''s relentless efforts in bringing our products and services to perfection. We will continue to devote ourselves to promoting the development of Linux software in China."