The database wars of the 1990s helped determine the lay of the enterprise RDBMS-scape, with IBM Corp. (which gobbled up the former Informix Corp.), Microsoft Corp., and Oracle Corp. all vying for the biggest chunk of the relational database market. To some extent, RDBMS wars also helped marginalize Sybase Inc., which once contended with IBM and Oracle for relational market share (and which sold Microsoft the database technology on which SQL Server is based).
But Sybase—which IDC has clinging to 3.5 percent of the worldwide RDBMS market, behind Microsoft (by a long shot) and just ahead of NCR Corp. subsidiary Teradata (with 2.9 percent)—has a successful, if not exactly well known, data warehousing practice. And Sybase isn’t resting on its laurels. The RDBMS stalwart has also cobbled together the makings of a compelling data integration platform, acquiring—last year, from the former Avaki Corp.—enterprise information integration (EII) technology and last week, from German integration specialist Solonde AG, ETL and additional EII technology assets. With solid data federation capabilities and new ETL features, Sybase’s evolving data integration stack could bear watching.
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