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SQL Anywhere 11 Available

August 7, 2008

SQL Anywhere version 11 is now available to the marketplace. With more than 10 million deployed seats, SQL Anywhere has established its reputation as an enterprise-caliber database and synchronization solution designed to be widely deployed in environments with little or no onsite IT support. Thousands of application partners worldwide embed SQL Anywhere in server, desktop, remote office and mobile applications.

SQL Anywhere 11 continues to push the boundaries of enterprise-caliber database features such as embedded full-text search, parallel sorting, and immediately maintained materialized views by optimizing them for environments outside the data center. In addition, SQL Anywhere continues to advance its mobile database and synchronization leadership, including support for BlackBerry devices, MySQL, and background data synchronization. New developer features in SQL Anywhere 11, along with a new Web Edition target the emerging Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications.

“For more than 15 years SQL Anywhere’s self-managing database and synchronization technologies have been engineered to run outside the traditional data center,” said Dave Neudoerffer, vice president, Engineering, Sybase iAnywhere. “SQL Anywhere 11 is a key enabler of Sybase’s Unwired Enterprise strategy by facilitating distributed data management architectures that provide global enterprises information access anytime, anywhere.”

”We’re seeing a revolution in the use of business information,” said Carl Olofson, research vice president, application development and deployment, IDC. “There was a time when most IT users interacted with specialized applications while sitting at a desk, and only 'knowledge workers' dealt with general enterprise information. These days, advances in technology, more expansive job descriptions, and pressure to use timely business intelligence has greatly expanded the range of people needing enterprise information, and they need it well beyond the confines of their offices, and outside of 'normal business hours'. With the latest SQL Anywhere release, Sybase iAnywhere continues to deliver on its proven track record of delivering a broad range of information to people when they need it, and wherever they happen to be.”

SQL Anywhere 11 has over 200 new features and enhancements and continues to redefine functionality typically only found in enterprise-class databases:

Performance, Reliability, Scalability by setting a TPC-C performance record for solutions less than $35,000 through significant multi-user performance enhancements such as index compression and simple statement caching; query performance improvements such as parallel sort, parallel index scans, and index-only retrieval have also been added;
Frontline Analytics provides advanced data analysis in remote locations with enterprise features including embeddable full-text search, regular expression searching, immediately maintained materialized views, read access to mirror servers, and OLAP support;
Advanced Synchronization across occasionally connected networks through a new Relay Server architecture, load balancing and high availability features, background synchronization, new synchronization client platform support including RIM BlackBerry and embedded Linux and support for MySQL;
Developer Freedom to use development tools and technologies of choice. SQL Anywhere 11 extends its broad support for languages and platforms with external stored procedures written in .NET and Perl, full .NET 3.5 support (ADO.NET 3.5 provider, Entity Framework and LINQ support), Visual Studio 2008 integration, and enhanced support for PHP, Perl, and Python.

The SQL Anywhere 5 User Server package is available at $599 and the SQL Anywhere 10 User Server package is available at $1,099. Licenses for additional users are available starting at $119. SQL Anywhere Server is also available at $2,499 per CPU, which licenses an unlimited number of networked clients. Additionally, the SQL Anywhere High Availability Option is priced at $1499 per CPU. A MobiLink High Availability option to take advantage of server farm capabilities is available in Version 11 starting at $49 per seat.