Sybase Wins Open Source World's '2004 Editor's Choice Award' for 'Best

DUBLIN, Calif., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sybase, Inc. , a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, announced that its enterprise-class relational database management system, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) for Linux, won Open Source World's Editor's Choice Award for "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. Through its outstanding product performance and after-sale services, Sybase ASE for Linux has gained widespread recognition.

"The 2004 Editor's Choice Award represents the different suggestions and comments from industry professionals, government officials, media and Open Source World readers," said Open Source World Executive Editor, Mr. Hu Wanjin. "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 symbolizes 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."

Open Source World's 2004 Editor's Choice Awards, aimed at publicly endorsing the most outstanding and sophisticated Linux applications of the year, went through a three-step selection criteria before winners were selected. First, advice from experts, government officials, enterprise representatives and professionals in the Linux industry was sought. Secondly, results of polling open to authors and readers of Open Source World, members of CCID Linux Zone, LinuxAID and IBM Developer Linux Zone were taken into account. Lastly, the Editorial Board and the Linux OpenLab of the China Software Testing Center evaluated each product. Results of this rigorous selection process enabled the awards to be objective and more widely recognized.

For more information on Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for Linux, please visit: http://www.sybase.com/linux/ase .

About Sybase, Inc.

Celebrating 20 years of innovation, Sybase enables the Unwired Enterprise for customers and partners by delivering enterprise and mobile software solutions for information management, development and integration. The world's most critical data in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare runs on Sybase. For more information, visit the Sybase Web site: http://www.sybase.com/ .

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