Sybase Joins The Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer Member

Sybase Joins The Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer Member
SYNOPSIS: Sybase to sponsor and lead proposed Data Tools Project for Eclipse
and will exhibit new developer tools for Eclipse platform at EclipseCon 


BURLINGAME, Calif., Feb. 22  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY),
a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today
announced that it has joined Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer
Member, and will be represented on the Board of Directors by Vice President of
Engineering, David Tong. Sybase is well positioned to make significant
contributions to the Eclipse community by furthering the development and
delivery of open source development tooling.

A member of the Eclipse Organization and Eclipse Steward since 2002, Sybase
released one of the first commercially available products on the Eclipse
framework, the award-winning business process orchestration and monitoring tool
Sybase(R) Unwired Orchestrator. As a recognized leader in data management,
application development and modeling, Sybase will provide developer resources
and leverage its expertise by proposing a new Data Tools Project at Eclipse.
The goal of the project is to work with the Eclipse community in developing a
comprehensive data management tooling framework.

"We are excited about using Eclipse as an open framework and providing our
customers with a tool set that enables end to end software development, from
backend data integration to mobile application development," said David Tong,
vice president of engineering, Sybase. "With products based on Eclipse,
developers will be able to leverage all of the tooling the Eclipse Community
and Sybase have to offer."

"The Eclipse community will benefit greatly from Sybase's new role on the board
of directors of the Eclipse Foundation and as the leader of the proposed Data
Tools Project," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse
Foundation. "Supported by Sybase's longstanding expertise in open application
development and experience providing tools for creating cross-platform,
interoperable applications, the community will be better equipped than ever to
advance critical open-source initiatives."

Sybase will demonstrate its Eclipse-based technology at the upcoming EclipseCon
in Burlingame, California, February 28 - March 3, 2005 at booth # 408/509.

About Eclipse

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit member-supported corporation that
hosts community based open source projects. Eclipse creates royalty-free
technology and a universal platform for development tools integration,
modeling, testing and functionally-rich application construction. Eclipse-based
offerings give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language,
multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a dynamic
plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create and integrate
technology, saving time and money. By collaborating and sharing core
integration technology, providers can concentrate and focus on areas of
expertise and differentiation. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java
language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples.
It has already been deployed on a range of development workstations including
Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. Full
details of the Eclipse Foundation and white papers documenting the design of
the Eclipse Platform are available at http://www.eclipse.org/.

About Sybase, Inc.

Celebrating 21 years of innovation, Sybase enables the Unwired Enterprise for
customers and partners by delivering enterprise and mobile software solutions
for information management, development and integration.  The world's most
critical data in commerce, communications, finance, government and healthcare
runs on Sybase.  For more information, visit the Sybase Web site: 
http://www.sybase.com/ .

NOTE:  Sybase is a registered trademark of Sybase, Inc.   All other company and
product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with
which they are associated.

SPECIAL NOTE:  Statements concerning Sybase's future products, prospects, and
operating results are by nature forward-looking statements that involve a
number of uncertainties and risks and cannot be guaranteed.  The words
"anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "will," and similar
expressions relating to Sybase and its management may identify forward-looking
statements. Such statements are intended to reflect Sybase's current views with
respect to future events and may ultimately prove to be incorrect or false. 
Factors that could ultimately affect such statements include sales
productivity, possible disruptive effects of organizational changes; shifts in
customer or market demand for the Company's products and services; public
perception of the Company, its technology vision and future prospects; rapid
technological changes; competitive factors; delays in scheduled product
availability dates (which could result from various occurrences including
development or testing difficulties, software errors, shortages in
appropriately skilled software engineers and project management problems);
interoperability of the Company's products with other software products, and
other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange
Commission filings, including but not limited to its annual report on Form 10-K
and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of which can be viewed on the
Company's web site). 

DATASOURCE: Sybase, Inc.



CONTACT:  Deb Lacy of Sybase, Inc., [phone], or

; or Scott Smith of Citigate Cunningham, [phone],

or , for Sybase, Inc.



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