Sybase Releases Free Enterprise Database on Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on Wednesday September 8, 2004 @09:32PM from the everyone's-favorite-price dept.

Tassach writes "Sybase announced today that they are releasing a free (as in beer) version of their flagship database for Linux. The free version is limited to 1 CPU, 2GB of RAM, and 5GB of data, which is more than adequate for all but the most demanding applications. This release provides a very attractive alternative to Microsoft SQL Server, and gives developers and DBAs an extremely powerful argument to use against the adoption of Microsoft-based solutions. For those who are unfamiliar with the product, Microsoft's version of Transact-SQL is nearly identical to Sybases's. This high degree of similarity makes porting applications between the two platforms very easy. Sybase is supported by numerous open-source projects, including sqsh (SQL shell), FreeTDS, and SybPerl."

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Haha! by Libor+Vanek · 2004-09-08 21:47 · Score: 3, Funny

Shareware strikes OSS back!
Someone set us up the BLOB by beacher · 2004-09-08 21:54 · Score: 4, Funny

All your (Sy)BASE are belong to us!
Re:Ah, more free shit. by dotgain · 2004-09-08 22:15 · Score: 2, Funny

Gee, that cuts out most of the market then, don't it?
Re:microsoft would likely prefer you forget... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-08 23:40 · Score: 2, Funny

> ...that microsoft sql server is sybase (albeit 1993 codebase)

Yep. I recall a MS salesman explaining me, during a demo that SQL and Sybase did not share any code, sitting in front of a NT command box with Sybase copyright notice at startup of SQL server.

It was 10 years ago, but was really fun to watch anyway.