SYBASE SETS NEW INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE RECORD ON DIGITAL PLATFORM

Sybase Leapfrogs Competition; Achieves "Best On Platform" With SQL Server
11

EMERYVILLE, CA, December 21, 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise
Client/Server Company, today announced that Sybase SQL Server 11 achieved
the industry's best TPC-C benchmark results ever recorded on the 300
megahertz Digital AlphaServer 8400. The Sybase/Digital benchmark achieved
11,014 transactions per minute (tpmC) at a price/performance of $222 per
tpmC with Sybase SQL Server 11 -- 17 percent faster and 32 percent less
expensive than Oracle's best performance result utilizing the same Digital
Alpha chip. 

These results position Sybase SQL Server 11 as the performance and
price/performance relational database leader on two of the best-selling
UNIX servers: Digital AlphaServer 8400 and the Hewlett-Packard 9000 T500.


"In the head to head competition on the same platform, Sybase continues to
demonstrate that SQL Server 11 is the most scalable and most
cost-efficient RDBMS on the market today," said Dennis McEvoy, senior vice
president of the Enterprise Products Division for Sybase. "When combined
with Digital's 64-bit architecture, SQL Server 11 achieves unprecedented
high-end results." 

The benchmark tests were conducted on a 10-processor Digital AlphaServer
8400 system using six gigabytes of memory. With SQL Server 11's unique
Logical Memory Manager, overall memory usage becomes extremely efficient
and allows for increased scalability across SMP environments. Sybase's
lower memory and disk storage requirements result in the industry-leading
price/performance figures. Sybase expects even better TPC-C results on
Digital's 350 megahertz AlphaServer. 

The TPC-C price/performance results represent true cost of ownership
including initial hardware, software and disk storage costs with five
years of product maintenance. This means that customers can implement
enterprise systems for significantly less than using Oracle or Informix. 

"Sybase's record-breaking tpmC results demonstrate once again the superior
performance advantages of Digital's 64-bit AlphaServer systems," said
Pauline Nist, vice president of Digital's AlphaServer Business Segment.
"the combination of Sybase SQL Server 11 and an AlphaServer 8400 system
offers customers unprecedented levels of raw performance, industry-leading
price/performance and the ability to implement Very Large Memory database
searches for the fastest response times." 

 TPC-C Comparison        Sybase          Oracle          Informix
 Chart
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 Digital AlphaServer     11,014 tpmC     9414 tpmC        None
 8400 (300 megahertz)    $222 per tpmC   $316 per tpmC
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Sybase, Inc. 

Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBS) is a worldwide leader in client/server
software. Sybase and its wholly owned subsidiary Powersoft Corporation are
focused on four major market segments: on-line transaction processing,
data warehousing, mass deployment and electronic commerce. Sybase's
software products -- database, middleware and tools -- provide customers
with desktop to enterprise solutions. The company's mission is to provide
customers with an open, adaptable information systems architecture that
enables them to develop and deliver complete information systems solutions
to facilitate rapid business change. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA,
Sybase is the sixth largest independent software company in the world. 

Sybase Inc
6475 Christie Ave
Emeryville, CA 04608
510-596-3500;  Fax: 510-658-9441
 
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