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Sybase middleware to manage objects
SYBASE THIS WEEK at the International Sybase User Group Conference in Orlando, Fla., will detail its strategy for managing objects across diverse distributed databases.
Sybase Adaptive Server technology will manage specific application servers for handling functions such as online transaction processing, decision support, and video via a single development API and management console, said Mitchell Kertzman, Sybase president and CEO. These servers will then be tied together via a unified middleware layer. The SQL Server relational database management system will be the foundation of Adaptive Server, according to the company.
Sybase's approach to adding object support to its database architecture differs sharply from Informix, which has built a...