In March 2009, Sybase and SAP partnered to deliver the new SAP Business Suite software to iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and other devices.

In May 2010, SAP announced that it would be acquiring Sybase for $ 5. 8 billion.

* March 2009: Sybase and SAP partner to deliver the SAP Business Suite software to iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and other devices.

* May 2010: SAP makes an offer to acquire Sybase for $ 5. 8 billion.

* July 2010: SAP completes tender offer for shares of Sybase and its acquisition.

* Sybase Unwired Platform ( SUP )-a framework for developing mobile applications that SAP is using both as a development platform and a device management system

* SAP to Acquire Sybase

The company's best-known software products are its enterprise resource planning application ( SAP ERP ), its enterprise data warehouse solution-SAP Business Warehouse ( SAP BW ), SAP BusinessObjects software, and most recently, Sybase mobile products and in-memory computing appliance SAP HANA.

In 2010, SAP acquired Sybase in a major acquisition move.

In May 2010 SAP AG announced that it is buying the database software maker Sybase for US $ 5. 8 billion in cash.

Sybase will continue to run as a separate, independent unit but will be leveraged across the other SAP areas.

Adaptive Server Enterprise ( ASE ) is Sybase Corporation's ( Now SAP AG ) flagship enterprise-class relational model database server product.

The main competitors are vendors of relational databases such as DB2 from IBM, Sybase from SAP, MS-SQL from Microsoft, MySQL, Oracle, and Oracle's Hyperion Solutions Essbase.

PowerBuilder is an integrated development environment owned by Sybase, a division of SAP.

When Sybase launched its mobility subsidiary, Sybase iAnywhere, in 2000, SQL Anywhere became its flagship relational database management system ( RDBMS ) and helped the company to become the leader of the mobile database market.

In January, 1998, Sybase announced that the financial results for the company in the last three quarters of 1997 would have to be restated, as it found inconsistencies in profits reporting from its Japanese division.

* June 20, 2001: Sybase acquires New Era of Networks, a leading application integration company that produces the e-Biz Integrator middleware, though it stops offering this product in 2004.

* November 8, 2006: Sybase acquires Mobile 365, a mobile data and messaging company, and renames it Sybase 365.

In May 2000, Sybase spun off their mobile and embedded computing division into its own company, Sybase iAnywhere ( formerly iAnywhere Solutions Inc .).

Siebel served as chief executive officer of Gain Technology, a multimedia software company that merged with Sybase in December 1992.

Joint Venture with CartaSi the major Bank acquirer and issuer in Italy, Aspects Software in Scotland. and Mobileway sms premium service company after acquired by Sybase.

Even Microsoft SQL Server is actually a re-built version of Sybase, and thus, INGRES.

Due to disagreements between the two companies over revenue sharing ( or lack thereof ), Sybase and Microsoft decided to split the code-lines and went their own way, although the shared heritage is very evident in the Transact-SQL ( T-SQL ) procedural language as well as the basic process architecture.

The big difference is that Sybase has a Unix heritage, while Microsoft SQL Server was adapted and optimized only for the Microsoft Windows NT operating system.

Sybase 365 is one of the largest independent ( non-telco ) exchanges for text ( SMS ) and multimedia ( MMS ) messages.

* 1984: Sybase ( initially called Systemware ) is founded by Mark Hoffman, Bob Epstein, Jane Doughty and Tom Haggin out of Epstein's home in California.

Microsoft is a Sybase distributor, reselling the Sybase product for OS / 2 and NT under the name " Microsoft SQL Server.

* 2000: iAnywhere Solutions, Inc. is founded as a subsidiary of Sybase.

* February 2011: Sybase is positioned in Leaders quadrant in Gartner's 2011 Data Warehouse Database Management System Magic Quadrant.

Sybase Inc. is partnered with The Boeing Company who develops and licenses Spatial Query Server for Sybase.

Watcom SQL is still in production, now under the name Sybase SQL Anywhere.

For example, In the earlier versions of Sybase ASE prior to 15, " tape retension in days " parameter was static which always caused a problem whenever there is a plan to change the number of days which the backup has to be kept in the tape media without overwriting the existing contents in the production environment has now been made dynamic in the latest release.

For scripting languages, FreeTDS is used in conjunction with a module for that language such as DBD :: Sybase in Perl, Python-Sybase for Python, or Ruby DBI for Ruby

The exception was TDS 5. 0, used exclusively by Sybase, for which documentation is available from Sybase.

A surrogate key is frequently a sequential number ( e. g. a Sybase or SQL Server " identity column ", a PostgreSQL or Informix, an Oracle or a column defined with in MySQL ) but doesn't have to be.

Data striping is used in some modern databases, such as Sybase, and in certain RAID devices under software or hardware control, such as IBM's array subsystem.

It is compatible with ISAM, SQL and ADO data access methods, reads and writes several flat file desktop database formats including ASCII, CSV, DOS ( Binary ), FoxPro, Clipper, dBase, or all SQL RDBMS databases via ODBC, MS SQL Server, Sybase SQL Anywhere and Oracle through the use of accelerated native database drivers, and XML, Clarion can be used to output to HTML, XML, plaintext, and PDF, among others.

For PowerBuilder 12, released in late 2010, Sybase states that this extensibility is less of an issue, because PowerBuilder. NET's APIs allow the use of " off the street XAML " including control templates and skins as well as its ability to use custom WPF controls with less effort than its historic use of External Function calls and “ PBNI ” to access external resources.

The acquisition also marked the basis of Sybase ’ s entry into the enterprise mobility market with Watcom SQL, which Sybase renamed SQL Anywhere.

Sybase has expanded into the mobile space through a series of acquisitions of enterprise and mobile software companies.

Sybase now works with other industry leaders in infrastructure, data storage and virtualization to optimize technologies for delivery into public and virtual private cloud environments that provide greater technology availability and flexibility to Sybase customers looking to unwire their enterprise.

In September 2009, Sybase and Verizon partnered to manage mobility solutions for enterprises worldwide through Verizon ’ s Managed Mobility Solutions, which utilizes Sybase ’ s enterprise device management platform.

* 1993: Sybase launches Replication Server, a data replication technology that moves and synchronizes data across the enterprise.

* September 2009: Sybase and Verizon partner to manage mobility solutions for enterprises worldwide through Verizon ’ s Managed Mobility Solutions, which utilizes Sybase ’ s enterprise device management platform.

* November 2010: Sybase and Verizon deliver Mobile Services Enablement Platform, a new managed mobility offering, to reduce the complexity in developing and deploying mobile applications running across a variety of back-end enterprise systems and mobile device types.