The company's flagship relational database product now offers in-memory capability for sensitive transaction-based operations.

By Charles Babcock
InformationWeek
January 29, 2010 10:29 AM

Sybase Chairman and CEO John Chen said Thursday that Sybase experienced in the fourth quarter of 2009 the best quarter in its history for revenues and earnings.
Overall, Sybase's license revenue was up 5% for the year, with all sources of revenue totaling $1.17 billion, up 3%. Strong license revenues produced by the core system were a major contributor, as well as messaging revenue, up 12%, which reached a record $196.6 million. Part of the gains came from data handling partnerships with mobility partners Verizon, Samsun, IBM and SAP.

On Wednesday Sybase launched Release 15.5 of Sybase Adaptive Server, its flagship relational database product, which offers the option of being run as a high performance, in-memory system.

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) enjoyed solid growth in 2009 in an economic climate that...