Sybase Recognized as an Enterprise Database Leader by Independent Research Firm

New Report Positions Sybase as a Leader in the Enterprise Database Management Space

DUBLIN, CALIF. — JULY 8, 2009 — Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software, today announced that it was among the select companies that Forrester Research, Inc. invited to participate in its independent report, published June 30, 2009, “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009.” After an extensive review, Forrester recognized Sybase as a leader of Enterprise Database Management Systems. 

According to Forrester Research, “Sybase has been especially strong in the financial sector, supporting critical applications where reliability, robustness, and availability are top requirements… The company [Sybase] remains committed to Sybase® ASE; it has extended its features to support column level encryption, shared disk clustering and XML.”

“Sybase's strong heritage and longstanding commitment to building reliable, high performance database management systems has enabled us to innovate, grow our market share, and continue to have one of the highest customer retention rates in the industry,” said Brian Vink, vice president product marketing, Sybase. “We are extremely pleased that Forrester Research has recognized our position as an industry leader and expert in enterprise database management systems.”

The full Forrester Wave™ report can be obtained at www.forrester.com. For more information on Sybase Adaptive Server® Enterprise (ASE) please call 800-SYBASE5 or 925.236.5100 or visit www.sybase.com/ase.

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