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Sybase Releases Free Enterprise Database on Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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."

5 of 386 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Better than PostgreSQL? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Vote for Pedro!

    (probably lost on you if you're not geeky-quirky)

  2. Great... by demon_2k · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More competition for MS. The more alternatives, the better. I only with that there was something to compete with directx

  3. Re:PARENT is a TROLL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  4. Please explain the go thing (slightly OT) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I started with Oracle when it came to databases, but eventually I had some work to do with Sybase. Could someone PLEASE explain why they feel its necessary and/or useful to type "go" at the end of a sql statement to make it run vs. just throwing a semicolon at the end of it, like most other civilized DBs? Not trolling here at all, I've just always wondered. The extra keystrokes always bugged me...

  5. Re:Someone set us up the BLOB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GNU are on the way to destruction.

    Captain RMS: What you say?

    GNU have no chance to survive.
    Make your time.
    Ha Ha Ha

    Captain RMS: For great justice
    Captain RMS: Take off every FSF zig