SYBASE ANNOUNCES INTEL PERFORMANCE CENTER AND TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT GROUP

New Performance Center is Designed to Accelerate Sybase's Move into the
Rapidly Growing Intel-based Database Server Market

NEW YORK, NY, June, 20 1995 -- Sybase, Inc., The Enterprise Client/Server
Company, today announced the creation of its Intel Performance Center and
Technology Assessment Group, to accelerate Sybase's move into the rapidly
emerging Intel-based database server market. The Performance Center
provides Sybase with the best Intel-based client/server performance
testing facilities in the industry. At PC Expo, Sybase is displaying 60
networked PCs and demonstrating its custom client/server benchmark.

The Performance Center's charter is to anticipate customer needs through
hands-on use of Sybase products in an Intel-only environment. The testing
process yields a rich collection of information that is applied to product
planning. The Technology Assessment Group is differentiated from other
industry benchmark operations through its focus on system-wide performance
from client through server, and its exclusive devotion to Intel platforms.
The scope of the testing encompasses all components of client/server
computing, including client load, APIs, network topologies, and server
configurations.

Gene Sheppard, group product manager of the Technology Assessment Group
said, "Our experience with the technology represents what we believe
customers will likely experience in their Intel environments. The time we
invest using popular PC tools and applications in our test environment
tells us more about technology than numbers alone."

Pushing the Envelope

Sybase's Intel Performance Center is equipped with 200 client PCs, with
plans to expand to 300 by the end of the year, and over 900 by the end of
1996. The objective of using large numbers of client PCs is to produce
data that reflects real-world use as much as possible as opposed to
typical testing environments which simulate several client sessions, but
on each physical PC client. Intel-based servers from leading manufacturers
including Compaq, AT&T, and Hewlett-Packard are configured in the
Performance Center to reflect current and forecast market technology, and
various price/performance scenarios. The Intel Performance Center is
designed to push the envelope of Intel-based client/server computing. For
example, the lab recently concluded a very large data base (VLDB) test on
a 4-way Pentium server utilizing a high-performance 144GB disk-array
subsystem.

Diverse Team of PC Industry Experts

The Technology Assessment Group is the analysis force behind the hardware
and software investment that brings performance data to life. The
expertise of the team is grounded in performance testing, but the strength
of their analysis lies in the diversity of its members' experience. Each
team member brings one or more areas of expertise from the PC industry to
the group, including client/server implementation, technical marketing,
end-user computing, product reviews at trade publications, software
development, and usability testing.

Custom Benchmark Enables Testing

The core performance measurement activities center around the custom Sybase
client/server benchmark program, comprised of four main tests: single user
decision support queries, multi-user random read queries, multi-user
random writes, and multiuser BLOB (binary large object) retrievals. All
tests are managed from a Windows-based control console program developed
with PowerBuilder. Test progress and the status of each client are
graphically monitored and the test results are stored on the server. In
addition to the client-based test program, the test suite includes
measures of other functionality such as bulk data load, indexing, backup,
and restore.

About Sybase

Sybase, Inc., (NASDAQ: SYBS) is a worldwide leader in client/server
software. Sybase is focused on the four major client/server categories:
databases, tools, database systems management, and interoperability,
providing desktop to enterprise scalability. The company's mission is to
provide its customers with an open, adaptable information systems
architecture that enables rapid business change. Headquartered in
Emeryville, CA, Sybase is the seventh 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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