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Sybase History

Sybase has a rich 20-year history as a technology leader. Celebrating 20 years of innovation, Sybase has created technology that enables the Unwired Enterprise for our customers and partners by delivering enterprise and mobile infrastructure, development and integration software solutions. The world's most critical data in commerce, finance, government, healthcare and defense runs on Sybase. Below is a brief history of selected accomplishments spanning two decades as a leading technology company.
1984
Sybase founded by Mark Hoffman and Bob Epstein out of Mr. Epstein's home in Berkeley, CA.
1988
Sybase is first to market with client/server relational database, providing the Human Genome Project with licenses for the first generation of client/server relational databases.
1990
Sybase is first to deliver open replication technology.
1994
Sybase is declared leader in open middleware technology.
1995
Sybase leads client/server development tools with PowerBuilder.
1998
Sybase iAnywhere deploys more than 5 million seats on SQL Anywhere.
1999
Sybase is market leader in capital markets, delivering suite of online banking and brokerage applications.
2000
May

iAnywhere Solutions is formed as a subsidiary of Sybase.
Nov
Sybase is first to deliver a J2EE application server.
2001
Sybase iAnywhere leads the mobile database market for the fifth consecutive year.
2002
May

Sybase iAnywhere wins Mobility Award for Best Database.
July
Financial Fusion Inc. ranked number one by Celent Communications for Internet Banking Solution for second consecutive year.
July
Sybase beats all other application servers with record-breaking independent ECperf benchmark results.
2003
Feb

Sybase acquires AvantGo, strengthening Sybase iAnywhere’s leadership position in the mobile middleware market.
Aug
Sybase wins "Best Customer Service Award" in China for third consecutive year.
Sep
Sybase's integration solution receives Network Computing award, beating other major vendors.
Oct
Sybase selected as category leader in business intelligence and enterprise data warehousing infrastructure.
Nov
Sybase launches the “Unwired Enterprise.”
2004
Jan

Sybase beats fourth-quarter revenue and pro forma EPS estimates, growing mobile and wireless business by 19 percent, year over year.
May
Sybase integrates acquired companies XcelleNet and Dejima with iAnywhere, enhancing Sybase's ability to help companies arm workers with anytime, anywhere access to information.
Dec
Sybase and iAnywhere recognized as No. 1 in mobile database and mobile middleware.
2005
May
Sybase expands its information management and mobility solutions with acquisition of ISDD.
May
Sybase acquires Avaki, advancing its drive for heterogeneous information management.
Oct
Sybase acquires Extended Systems, incorporating its patented, end-to-end enterprise information mobility offering into iAnywhere.
2006
May

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15 and AvantGo win “Best Database Management Solution” and “Best Mobile Solution” in the Codie Awards, a peer-recognition awards program that recognizes outstanding achievement and vision in the industry.
June
Sybase reports the highest Q2 operating margin in its history as a public company, and grows its database license revenue by 31 percent and mobile and wireless license revenue by 21 percent year over year.
June
Sybase acquires Germany-based Solonde AG. Solonde’s extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities advance Sybase’s Unwired Enterprise strategy by providing a more complete range of data integration solutions to its global customers.
June
Sybase combines messaging, mobile device management, enterprise-to-edge security and back-office application extension capabilities into the Information Anywhere Suite, enabling organizations to empower employees to complete their work anywhere, at anytime, on any device.
June
IT Week names Sybase one of the “Top 100 Vendors of 2006” for its leadership in database management technology.
Aug
Sybase introduces the Data Integration Suite, a flexible and scalable solution that combines key data integration techniques including replication, data federation, extract, transform and load (ETL), real-time events and data search with integrated development and administration.
Nov
Sybase acquires Mobile 365 and creates Sybase 365, a wholly-owned subsidiary. The combination makes Sybase the world’s largest provider of mobile messaging services.
Nov
Sybase acquires professional software services and embedded software licensing assets of iFoundry Systems, enabling a more complete embedded software solution offering.
Dec
Sybase 365 delivered a record-breaking 25 billion mobile messages in 2006.
2007
Jan
IDC recognizes Sybase iAnywhere as a worldwide leading provider of mobile middleware.
June
Enterprise Open Source Magazine readers vote Sybase ASE best Linux database for the third consecutive year.
Aug
Sybase previews its Next-Generation Architecture for unwiring the enterprise at its annual user conference, TechWave.
Aug
Sybase iAnywhere acquires geographic information system provider Coboplan, furthering the company’s Unwired Enterprise expansion into the area of context-aware, location-based applications.
Sep
Sybase IQ provides eco-savings for petabyte-sized data warehouse, the world's largest green data warehouse including unstructured data.
Oct
IDC names Sybase iAnywhere No. 1 in worldwide mobile device management enterprise software market for sixth consecutive year.
Nov
Sybase 365 pioneers natural language service for mobile messaging with Answers 365.
2008
Jan

Sybase reports the best quarter and year in company history, with fourth quarter revenue up 15 percent, GAAP operating income Up 33 percent and cash flow from operations up 65 percent year over year.