Sybase Joins The Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer Member
February 22 2005 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Sybase Joins The Eclipse Foundation as Strategic Developer Member
SYNOPSIS: Sybase to sponsor and lead proposed Data Tools Project
for Eclipse and will exhibit new developer tools for Eclipse
platform at EclipseCon BURLINGAME, Calif., Feb. 22
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), a leading
provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, today
announced that it has joined Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic
Developer Member, and will be represented on the Board of Directors
by Vice President of Engineering, David Tong. Sybase is well
positioned to make significant contributions to the Eclipse
community by furthering the development and delivery of open source
development tooling. A member of the Eclipse Organization and
Eclipse Steward since 2002, Sybase released one of the first
commercially available products on the Eclipse framework, the
award-winning business process orchestration and monitoring tool
Sybase(R) Unwired Orchestrator. As a recognized leader in data
management, application development and modeling, Sybase will
provide developer resources and leverage its expertise by proposing
a new Data Tools Project at Eclipse. The goal of the project is to
work with the Eclipse community in developing a comprehensive data
management tooling framework. "We are excited about using Eclipse
as an open framework and providing our customers with a tool set
that enables end to end software development, from backend data
integration to mobile application development," said David Tong,
vice president of engineering, Sybase. "With products based on
Eclipse, developers will be able to leverage all of the tooling the
Eclipse Community and Sybase have to offer." "The Eclipse community
will benefit greatly from Sybase's new role on the board of
directors of the Eclipse Foundation and as the leader of the
proposed Data Tools Project," said Mike Milinkovich, executive
director of the Eclipse Foundation. "Supported by Sybase's
longstanding expertise in open application development and
experience providing tools for creating cross-platform,
interoperable applications, the community will be better equipped
than ever to advance critical open-source initiatives." Sybase will
demonstrate its Eclipse-based technology at the upcoming EclipseCon
in Burlingame, California, February 28 - March 3, 2005 at booth #
408/509. About Eclipse The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit
member-supported corporation that hosts community based open source
projects. Eclipse creates royalty-free technology and a universal
platform for development tools integration, modeling, testing and
functionally-rich application construction. Eclipse-based offerings
give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language,
multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse
delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework that makes it easier to
create and integrate technology, saving time and money. By
collaborating and sharing core integration technology, providers
can concentrate and focus on areas of expertise and
differentiation. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java
language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and
examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development
workstations including Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, QNX, Mac OS X
and Windows-based systems. Full details of the Eclipse Foundation
and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse Platform are
available at http://www.eclipse.org/. About Sybase, Inc.
Celebrating 21 years of innovation, Sybase enables the Unwired
Enterprise for customers and partners by delivering enterprise and
mobile software solutions for information management, development
and integration. The world's most critical data in commerce,
communications, finance, government and healthcare runs on Sybase.
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ultimately affect such statements include sales productivity,
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customer or market demand for the Company's products and services;
public perception of the Company, its technology vision and future
prospects; rapid technological changes; competitive factors; delays
in scheduled product availability dates (which could result from
various occurrences including development or testing difficulties,
software errors, shortages in appropriately skilled software
engineers and project management problems); interoperability of the
Company's products with other software products, and other risks
detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange
Commission filings, including but not limited to its annual report
on Form 10-K and its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (copies of
which can be viewed on the Company's web site). DATASOURCE: Sybase,
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