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Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), Dublin, Calif., a leading enterprise infrastructure and integration company, has announced that Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, the company's enterprise- class relational database management system (RDBMS), will be available for shipment to Mac OS X customers within the third quarter of this year. With ASE, system implementers will be able to deploy high-performance, scalable RDBMS' on the Mac. Sybase also announced ASE will provide support for Apple's WebObjects, allowing application developers using Apple's WebObjects full support from ASE's rich feature set.

"Apple's new Xserve, along with Mac OS X and Apple's traditional strengths in the education and creative professional markets, reinforces our decision to bring Adaptive Server Enterprise, Sybase's high-performance, scalable, enterprise-class RDBMS, to the Mac," said Dr. Raj Nathan, senior vice president and general manager, Sybase Enterprise Solutions Division. "We're looking forward to the potential for new business from these new markets and t o the opportunity to build on our business in areas where our customers overlap."

"We're excited by how the UNIX-based capabilities of Mac OS X, combined with the power of our new Xserve, are enabling enterprise software companies like Sybase to bring industrial strength applications to the Mac," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "Sybase's enterprise-class database, ASE, on the Mac will create new opportunities for Sybase in Apple's traditionally strong markets, while bringing a robust new application to Apple's customers and developers."

"North Plains Systems is proud to be one of the first enterprise-class asset management systems to support Sybase," said Steve Sauder, CTO, North Plains Systems, the leading enterprise-class digital asset management company. "With Adaptive Server Enterprise, it only took days to port from a TeleScope Enterprise Microsoft SQL Server running on NT to ASE running on Mac OS X. Not only are we ecstatic about Sybase bringing enterprise database technology to the Mac, but our customers are too."

Sybase's enterprise-class RDBMS, ASE 12.5, supports the heavy data processing needs of traditional OLTP and the complex data manipulation needs of decision support systems, while providing the flexibility, scalability, performance and security needed to support new, e-Business applications. ASE 12. 5's commitment to openness and performance gives customers a robust choice for managing their transaction-intensive applications and mission-critical data. Sybase ASE provides system implementers with leading-edge support for Java and XML technologies while maintaining an attractive total cost of ownership.

"In a recent study of enterprise customers, purchasers of Mac OS X are significantly more likely to be considering database systems than customers not running Mac OS X with 23 percent considering purchasing a database management system," said Michael Kelly, chairman and chief architect of Techtel Corporation, a technology market research firm based in Emeryville, Calif. " I would expect Sybase's introduction to only accelerate this interest."

Sybase is committed to providing robust solutions through partnerships with developers. The Sybase Developer Network (SDN) offers a single point of access to developer software, services, related technical information from Sybase, and collaboration with other Sybase developers.

For more information about SDN, or to join, visit http://www.sybase.com/developer.

About Sybase, Inc.

Sybase is the enterprise infrastructure company that bridges heterogeneous technologies. With industry-leading Enterprise Portal (EP), mobile and wireless solutions, essential integration products, and high-performance database management systems, Sybase is one of the largest independent software companies in the world.

For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com or call 925/236-8696.