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Sybase bridges the industry divide
News Database vendor Sybase has launched four data warehouse applications specially adapted for the insurance, healthcare, telecommunications and retail banking industries. Each package contains applications specifically... [17 May 1999]
Silicon exclusive: Sybase chief talks up mobile computing
News Sybase CEO, John Chen, believes his company is the leader in a brand new market - enterprise mobile computing. The mobile enterprise market, as he defines it, enables people to access data from handheld devices, and... [29 Apr 1999]
Sybase launches e-business partnerships
News Sybase today unveiled the 200 companies it is partnering with to deliver e-business applications based on its Enterprise Application Studio 3.0 product suite - also released today. Sybase is hoping that... [19 Apr 1999]
Sun and Sybase team up to help developers
News Sun Microsystems and Sybase are joining forces to enable developers to build applications which allow mobile workers to access corporate networks from handheld devices. Sybase will embed Java interfaces... [16 Mar 1999]
Meta Data Coalition calls for user support
News But the Meta Data Coalition (MDC) - whose database vendor members include IBM, Sybase and Microsoft - claims creating a standard would mean ordinary users could do this themselves. An industry coalition has launched an... [09 Mar 1999]
Hong Kong builds own Silicon Valley
News IBM and Sybase have already signed tenancy agreements with the government. Hong Kong has announced plans to develop its own Silicon Valley. The proposal to invest HK$13bn (£1.04bn) to create a hub of high-tech companies... [05 Mar 1999]
Oracle snaps up Federal Express deal
News Oracle has beaten Sybase to a contract to supply databases to parcel company Federal Express. Sybase has been the major database provider to FedEx since January 1997 - a deal it claimed at the time was... [18 Jan 1999]
Oracle forced to cut prices
News Sybase and Informix will be next, he added. Database giant Oracle is reportedly planning to cut its prices because of increasingly intense competition. According to Eric Woods, senior consultant at Ovum, the move is... [05 Oct 1998]
Knowledge management hailed as the next big thing
News Those who have sensed the potential are big database names, Sybase, Informix and Oracle, and messaging market leaders, Microsoft and Lotus, but spearheading the activity are management consultants. Knowledge management... [01 Oct 1998]
IBM helps Scottish police share knowledge
News IBM fought off eight rivals for the contract, including Informix, Microsoft, Oracle and Sybase. Strathclyde Police has chosen IBM's DB2 Universal Database for its corporate information management across eight individual... [17 Aug 1998]
IT heavyweights to testify in Microsoft case
News Names on the provisional witness list include Ellison, CEO at Oracle, Mitchell Kertzman, Sybase chairman and Jeff Papows, CEO at Lotus. Larry Ellison is among chiefs from three top IT companies who are set to testify... [22 Jul 1998]
Informix and Oracle back Linux
News Attention will now turn to the other big database players, IBM and Sybase, to see if they will climb on the Linux bandwagon. Sybase officials were unavailable for comment. Database vendors Informix and... [20 Jul 1998]
Sybase sued for false stock price
News Despite positive earnings last week, Sybase is being sued by stockholders for manipulating its share price. In January 1998, Sybase restated its earnings for the previous three quarters - and disclosed... [20 Jul 1998]
In brief: Sybase surprises investors with Q2 profit
News Sybase has stunned investors by reporting a profit in its second quarter results. John Chen, Sybase CEO, attributed the change of fortune to the company's policy of focusing on vertical markets and a... [17 Jul 1998]
Corel makes Java breakthrough
News Sybase will use the company's jBridge technology in Internet and intranet applications. Sybase and Corel will work together to make the product fit with the database vendor's existing products. Corel has... [26 Jun 1998]