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"Fundamentally what we have in the package is a suite of tools that a small enterprise can purchase, that gives them everything in one box to deploy a database for their enterprise," said Chuck Lownie, director of product management at Sybase's Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., office. "Our target, and our key to success, is that we deliver out-of-the-box performance. So ease of use and simplicity is absolutely key," he said.
It is "synchronized specifically for the small enterprise, not necessarily the small and medium size business part, but the branch offices part where companies are rolling up the data and the transactions that occur in a branch office and rolling that to one back-end server," Lownie said. He added that SQL Anywhere Studio for Workgroups has bi-directional synchronization to allow for a wide variety of combinations.
The package has several other key features. SQL Anywhere Studio for Workgroups has database functionality which includes full transaction processing and row-level locking and Java support script. The system also has multi-platform support including Windows, Netware, Unix and Linux.