iAnywhere Delivers SQL Anywhere 10 Beta

Published 17th April 2006

Maidenhead, UK, 17th April 2006:
iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc.(NYSE: SY), today announced beta availability of SQL Anywhere 10, the nextgeneration of its market-leading database and synchronisation product for
frontline environments. SQL Anywhere was built from inception to address these unique, data rich environments, which include high-performance server and desktop applications running at remote customer sites, workgroup applications deployed in enterprise departments and remote offices, and mobile applications used by sales people or service technicians. This major
release includes more than 200 new features and enhancements designed to help organisations capture, manage and capitalise on this data explosion. Developers are invited to join the SQL Anywhere 10 beta program at www.ianywhere.com/sqlanybeta.

"With more than 10 million deployments worldwide, SQL Anywhere has become the premier choice of more than 20,000 developers for building data-driven frontline applications," said Dave Neudoerffer, vice president of engineering at iAnywhere. "Version 10 builds on the tradition of innovation that has made SQL Anywhere so popular, and creates new opportunities for organisations to deliver enterprise-caliber data management to the far reaches of their business."

"Intuit selected SQL Anywhere as the database to power our QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions, significantly improving the speed and scalability of our application," said Pankaj Shukla, vice president of Product Development for the QuickBooks Group, Intuit. "We're excited about the upcoming release of SQL Anywhere 10, as it further enhances the performance, ease-of-use and
reliability features that our mid-market customers depend on."

Significant areas of enhancement in SQL Anywhere 10 include:

New database server performance features, including materialised views, intra-query parallelism, snapshot isolation, parallel backups and additional indexing methods,

Enhanced methods for data protection, including built-in high-availability and robust data security,

Expanded developer productivity resources and platform support, including tools for performance analysis and application profiling, .NET 2.0 support, tight integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and new support for Symbian devices, and

Innovations in synchronisation and messaging, including new graphical administration tools for architecture setup and deployment, expanded enterprise integration options, message management and monitoring, and mobile Web services.