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[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Red Hat Software Distributes First Enterprise-Class Database For
> The Linux Operating System
> 
> September 25, 1998
> 
> RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ via
> NewsEdge Corporation -- Red Hat Software, Inc., publisher of
> the award-winning Red Hat Linux Operating System, has
> announced that it will distribute a version of Sybase Adaptive
> Server Enterprise for the Linux Operating System. The package
> from Sybase includes Adaptive Server Enterprise and all related
> connectivity components and will be offered through Red Hat as
> a free of charge release for development and deployment.
> 
> "Sybase has supported the Linux community for several years,
> with an available Open Client library," said Raj Sehgal, director of
> product management, Enterprise Server Business, Sybase, Inc.
> "We are reinforcing this support by making Adaptive Server
> Enterprise, the first enterprise-class Linux database available
> today through Red Hat, one of the leading distributors of the
> Linux operating system. Now this community can take advantage
> of a highly scalable, high-performance database engine."
> 
> Robert Young, president of Red Hat Software, agreed. "The
> flood of support from top-tier companies like Sybase certainly
> serves as a catalyst for the wide-scale adoption of Linux in the
> Enterprise market," said Young. "Sybase is adopting an effective,
> customer-oriented strategy in supporting their products on the
> Red Hat Linux OS."
> 
> Indeed the future of the Linux OS is quickly becoming the
> present. Currently, Linux has support of leading companies such
> as Sybase, Oracle, and Netscape, Informix, Computer Associates,
> Interbase, and Corel, as well as the support of other leading
> software vendors such as Appgen, Cygnus, Pick Systems,
> Collective Technologies, Red Hat.
> 
> Adaptive Server Enterprise
> 
> Adaptive Server Enterprise is optimized to provide scalable,
> high- performance online transaction processing capabilities for
> business-critical applications in unpredictable, mixed-workload
> environments.
> 
> ABOUT LINUX
> 
> Linux is the freely distributable, cooperatively-developed
> POSIX-based, multi-user, multi-tasking operating system used
> worldwide. Linux is used as a high value, fully-functional UNIX
> workstation for applications ranging from Internet Servers to
> reliable work group computing. It has a strong presence among
> Internet Service Providers (ISPs), institutions of higher
> education, and web developers. It is also the fastest growing
> UNIX platform in the enterprise with an estimated 7 million users.
> For more information about Linux, visit http://www.linux.org/.
> 
> ABOUT RED HAT SOFTWARE, INC.
> 
> Founded in 1994, Red Hat Software is based in Research Triangle
> Park, NC, where it builds and maintains the award-winning Red
> Hat Linux operating system. Red Hat Linux for Intel, DEC
> Alpha(TM), and Sun SPARC platforms continues to gain
> recognition in the computer industry: From 1996 to the present,
> Red Hat Linux was twice named InfoWorld's Product of the Year,
> was given a Productivity accolade in Software Development's
> "Jolt" Awards, and was named an Environment/Desktop finalist in
> the Ziff-Davis European Excellence Awards.
> 
> For more information about Red Hat Software and Red Hat
> products and technologies, please call 1-919-547-0012 or visit
> our web site at http://www.redhat.com Reviews encouraged.
> 
> LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT is a registered
> trademark of Red Hat Software, Inc. Sybase and Adaptive Server
> are registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. UNIX is a registered
> trademark of The Open Group. INTEL is a registered trademark of
> Intel Corporation. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC
> International, Inc. Products bearing the SPARC Trademarks are
> based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> ALPHA is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation.
> ORACLE is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation.
> 
> SOURCE Red Hat Software, Inc.