Sybase, iAnywhere update PowerBuilder & SQL Anywhere

April 18, 2006 -- (MobileVillage) -- Sybase and its subsidiary iAnywhere today announced updates to some of their flagship mobile products: SQL Anywhere, its database and synchronization software and PowerBuilder rapid application development tool.

iAnywhere, a of Sybase, has announced beta availability of version 10 of SQL Anywhere, its database and synchronization software. The beta version offers new database server performance features, including materialized views, intra-query parallelism, snapshot isolation, parallel backups and additional indexing methods; improved methods for data protection, including built-in high-availability and data security.

Another improved feature is 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. Also, improvements in synchronization and messaging, including new graphical administration tools for architecture setup and deployment, expanded enterprise integration options, message management and monitoring, and
mobile Web services.

For details, see ianywhere.com. For quick information on iAnywhere, see the company's summary page on MobileVillage.

Sybase released version 10.5 of its PowerBuilder rapid application development tool. PowerBuilder 10.5 features key functionality enhancements and improvements to the DataWindow, a patented data access, presentation and manipulation tool.

Significant enhancements in version PowerBuilder 10.5 include:

Enhanced DataWindow Capabilities -- A key feature for developers, PowerBuilder's DataWindow greatly simplifies data access and data presentation -- two tasks that are essential to most enterprise applications and often are difficult and time consuming. One DataWindow improvement is the ability to build complex forms and reports with ease using autosize height functionality for all bands in a report, not just the main band where the data resides. Other improvements enable users to utilize a new presentation style, the TreeView DataWindow that enables hierarchical data to be easily displayed. New properties make complex data access, data manipulation and data presentation an easier, codeless, graphical experience.

New Rich Text Control -- Empowers customers to deliver rich text in their applications, providing support for the latest rich text specification from Microsoft.

New Data Type Support -- Offers built-in support for new data types creating a more robust product and better enables support integration with new technologies and other applications within the enterprise

Richer and Fuller Support for Web Services -- Allows developers to use this industry standard without having to incur a learning curve. PowerBuilder developers can now play an active role in building applications that access a variety of data from customers' vendors and other services through the new Web Services support.

User Interface Enhancements -- With all new icons, menus and toolbars, developers are able to quickly and intuitively build and bring fresh and modern looking applications to the market.

PowerBuilder Enterprise version 10.5 is priced at US $2,995 and $645 for an Upgrade Subscription Plan (USP). For additional information, see www.sybase.com/powerbuilder. For quick information on Sybase, see the company's summary page on MobileVillage.

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