Do any you guys have any experience of using Sybase products?

 

no, but i have just sold my car to a nice chap called giles who works for them. mail me if you want his e-mail address.

mj

 

only the database if thats any use

 

Yeah - the Database

Why?

Gamm

 

Just looking for some tales of experiences using it, goood, bad or ugly? A potential client is looking for someone to maintain / further develop an existing app with a Sybase backend. Got plenty of experience developing against SQL Server and Oracle but never been anywhere near Sybase.

 

seemed fine when I used it, havent played with it for a while though

 

Aint SQL Server (6.5?) & Sybase the same product, just renamed????

 

only the firewall and that thing is spot on
far better than zone-alarm imho

 

Guys,

Many moons ago Sybase sold the code for one of its core products to Microsoft; this was what was to become SQL Server. I shall refrain from commenting about whether or not the deal made sense but am told that it was necessary at the time.

As a company Sybase boasts excellent solutions, especially in the field of relational databases. Sybase is industry leader in the UK Financial Services market. Other markets include integration (including mobiles) and web-technology.

Sybase databases are known for speed / response, this being important to large scale installations.

Should any of you wish to be put in touch with someone from Sybase, please let me know. Location is not an issue; Sybase is a global blue-chip.

Hope this helps; apologies for the lack of detail - I'm a Network Engineer, not a product specialist.

Cheers,

Giles.

 

We use sybase as our back-end server for an international cross-asset trading system, capable of processing up to 7 trades per second. I don't know much about the DB itself (I work on the front-end stuff) but I gather it's very good.

 

I've always been impressed with the simplicity and speed of Sybase.

Gamm

 

http://www.softwarecentre.sybase.com/
http://www.isug.com/

...always a good place to start :-)