Sybase, Red Hat to Build Database Appliance

Published: May 22, 2007

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Database maker Sybase, which created a Linux variant of its Adaptive Server database management system a few years back, and commercial Linux distributor Red Hat have announced that the two companies are going to work together to make their respective programs work together. The two also divulged that they are working on a unified database appliance.

For those of you who have not studied the history of database management systems, Sybase is one of the early relational database management system providers and actually licensed the code to Microsoft more than a decade ago , which gave Microsoft a platform on which to build its SQL Server database. Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise is very fast at certain things, and is particularly popular among retail, financial services, and telecommunications companies that have historically deployed their databases on RISC/Unix boxes in the past decade and a half.

As part of their expanded partnership, Sybase and Red Hat are collaborating to ensure that Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 works well with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform, which is the full-on version of RHEL 5 that has integrated clustering, a global file system, and other goodies. Sybase plans to have ASE 15 certified on RHEL 5 in both physical and virtual modes and ready for market in the second half of this year; the related Sybase IQ data warehousing and analytics tools are slated for delivery on RHEL 5 in the second half of 2007 as well. The two are working on delivering a database appliance based on the combination of ASE 15 and RHEL 5 that will also come out in the second half of 2007, will have lower installation, configuration, and maintenance costs, and will be patched through a single interface--most likely through the new Red Hat Exchange.

The two are also working to give Sybase customers a single point of contact, through Red Hat, for tech support, with the Sybase team providing Level 3 support for when situations get escalated beyond Red Hat's capacity to deal with a particular problem.

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