Stories about: ASE

Sybase is preparing to unveil an update to Adaptive Server Enterprise, its flagship relational database, that will use virtualization technology to let users run a single instance of ASE across a cluster of servers.

Sybase will focus on showing off its three databases to Linux enthusiasts at the LinuxWorld expo this month, as well as running demonstrations on how clients can use its databases to leverage solutions in the mobility space.

Swedish authorities formally charged a 26-year-old Hungarian man with industrial espionage on Tuesday, charging him with hacking into the Sony Ericsson and Ericsson intranets.

IBM and Sybase have teamed to add support for Sybase's database software on IBM's eServer OpenPower Linux servers. The two companies said they will jointly sell and market their products.

Is Sybase targeting MS SQL or PostgreSQL or both? That's what developers and DBAs have been asking themselves after last week's big announcement by Sybase that it has released a free (as in beer) version of the Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database - which Sybase claims is the first free Linux enterprise-class database for production use.

In a bid to expand the customer base for its database software, Sybase released on Tuesday a free, limited version of its software for deployment on Linux systems.

At least for the year 2001, mark June as the month of databases. Sybase on Monday announced Version 12.5 of its flagship Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database, and Red Hat last week said in an earnings call that it will bring to market an open-source database.

After announcing this week it will increase its support for Linux, Compaq has revealed more about where these initiatives will be directed.

Compaq unveiled a series of new programs Monday designed to attract developers to the Linux operating system and create more applications for everything from servers to handheld devices.