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Keeping pace with demands from intranet and mobile users, Sybase Inc. has broadened the attraction of its strong SQL Anywhere desktop database. The latest release, Sybase SQL Anywhere Professional 5.5, includes one tool for creating, managing, and running Web-based applications and another tool for bidirectional replication via e-mail.
This powerful client/server desktop database clearly overpowers Microsoft Corp.'s Access, Borland International Inc.'s Paradox, and Lotus Development Corp.'s Approach. SQL Anywhere Professional's performance and its database features come closer to those offered by Oracle Corp.'s Oracle Lite and Personal Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and its own cousin, Sybase SQL Server 11. However, SQL Anywhere Professional is notably different from those powerful products due to its small desktop footprint, which makes it ideal for mobile users. This program's executable code requires less than 2MB of RAM (making it suitable for personal digital assistants) and about lOMB of disk space.
Drawing a card from its Powersoft Division, Sybase bundles its InfoMaker 5.0 reporting and analysis tool. SQL Anywhere Professional strengthens its ties with the System 11 family and still offers the same industrial-strength relational database features reported in my earlier review. (See Product Reviews, Jan. 15, page 93.)
Sybase has strengthened compatibility with SQL Servers procedural language Transact SQL,...