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Sybase Announces Availability of Adaptive Server Enterprise Cluster Edition for HP-UX and AIX Platforms

DUBLIN, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—November 4, 2008— Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information, today announced the planned availability of its Adaptive Server® Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition for AIX and HP-UX 11i. This additional UNIX support is another expansion to the ecosystem of supported products and platforms for ASE Cluster Edition, including third party monitoring tools and replication technology.

Sybase accelerated ASE Cluster Edition support for HP-UX 11i and AIX due to demand from customers wanting to leverage ASE Cluster Edition to consolidate database servers, meet service level agreements (SLAs) and lower costs through ASEs unique approach of combining patent-pending Virtualized Management Resource (VRM) technology in a shared-disk cluster architecture. Support for these new platforms demonstrates that Sybase continues to execute on its Unwired Enterprise strategy by delivering on the promise of open, reliable systems that meet our customers ever-growing data management requirements.

Sybase customers that run some of the worlds most critical data in communications, finance and government are telling us that ASE Cluster Edition can help them reduce IT infrastructure costs and improve their service levels, said Brian Vink, Vice President, database product marketing, Sybase. Support for additional platforms, integration technologies and partner tools are enabling even more of our customers to leverage ASE Cluster Edition within their existing IT environments.

Customers want to reduce risk to their business through the safeguarding of critical data. The combination of HP-IX 11i V3 and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise achieves this while increasing the availability and resource utilization of their technology environment, said Jennifer Millier, Vice President Marketing for Business Critical Server group, HP. The combination of the advanced security features in the latest version of HP-UX 11i ver 3 with the high performance and reliability of the new ASE Cluster Edition significantly improves the data protection for high transaction-oriented applications.

Bradmark Technologies, Inc. is an established provider of enterprise monitoring and database administration tools and a longstanding partner of Sybase. The companys suite of real-time database monitoring products called Surveillance are capable of overseeing the entire Sybase database environment, including Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ, Replication Server® and Sybase Mirror Activator, with drill-down functionality for quick problem identification. Bradmark just today announced the upcoming release of Surveillance version 4.2 for Sybase ASE Cluster Edition. For more information, please visit www.bradmark.com.

Sybase continues to be a strategic partner for us and we are extremely dedicated to supporting the entire Sybase product family, said Brad Tashenberg, CEO, Bradmark Technologies, Inc. Surveillance support for the new ASE Cluster Edition demonstrates our ongoing commitment to deliver premier monitoring solutions to our customers, many of which run the world's most critical data on Sybase.

Many of Sybase's customers leverage the power of Replication Server to seamlessly replicate data between mission-critical ASE servers and secondary failover sites. Replication Servers support for ASE Cluster Edition means that many enterprises can combine world-class disaster recovery across data centers with Replication Server and unprecedented continuous availability within a data center with ASE Cluster Edition. For more information about Replication Server, please visit www.sybase.com/replicationserver.

Availability

ASE Cluster Edition 15.0.1 is available today on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, 5 (X86_64), 64-bit Solaris 9 and 10 on SPARC® platforms, and SuSE Linux 9, 10 (X86_64). Support for HP-UX v11.23, 11.31(IA64), and AIX v6.1 (AIX64) is scheduled for availability in December 2008. For more information, please visit www.sybase.com/clusters.

About Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise

Many of the largest financial institutions worldwide depend on Sybase ASE because it is one of the most reliable and cost-effective data management platforms for business-critical applications with extreme transaction levels. The latest version, ASE 15, builds on that reputation with key enhancements that scale performance, minimize corporate risk, and reduce IT operational costs. For more information, please call 800-8-SYBASE or visit www.sybase.com/ASE.

About Sybase

Sybase is the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information. With our global solutions, enterprises can extend their information securely and make it useful for people anywhere using any device. The worlds most critical data in commerce, communications, finance, and government runs on Sybase. For more information, visit the Sybase Website at http://www.sybase.com.

Sybase, Adaptive Server Enterprise, Replication Server and Mirror Activator are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. ® indicates registration in the United States of America. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

Special Note: Statements concerning Sybases product market, relationships with its customers and new products are forward-looking statements that involve a number of uncertainties and risks and cannot be guaranteed. Factors that could ultimately affect such statements are detailed from time to time in Sybases Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on the Companys web site).



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