Sybase ASE 15 for Linux – FREE?
This might be the best kept secret ever. I can’t believe that this is not more known to the public. That’s why I want to share this with you.
Sybase released Sybase ASE 15 Express. Free to use on Linux. The restrictions to use it for free are well in the limits of most MySQL databases running millions of websites.
Here’s the download.
http://www.sybase.com/linuxpromo
PHP has a very nice integration into Sybase ASE. Combine the popularity of Linux and Apache with the free Sybase ASE, you get a powerful combination. How many times did you hear the MySQL problems when the database all a sudden grows beyond what MySQL can handle. These are costly migration projects or you’re force to buy SUN’s support package.
When using the free Sybase ASE 15 for Linux there is nothing more to do than to buy an inexpensive small business license if you grow beyond the free license restrictions and you will never miss a beat.
So, dump your MySQL for a way more powerful Sybase ASE 15.
On another note, I am following a discussion on a LinkedIn group called Sybase DBA Network. There’s a lot of talk about how Sybase should increase their market shares. I am following this discussion for a while now and I read a lot about how little resources are available on the internet. I must agree that the results for a Sybase search term are not as plentiful as when searching for Oracle or SQL server. But to be fair, most Oracle results on a search term are redundant entries on a many websites. The only way to change this is for Sybase DBA experts to be more outgoing and share their knowledge on blogs and forums.
Actually in this economy, being more visible to the public and demonstrating your skills could make the difference when searching for your next job.
This is a call for action to all Sybase DBA to contribute the global tribal knowledge of Sybase on the internet. If you don’t know where to post your knowledge, contact me.
- Peter
Tags: Apache, ASE, linkedin, linux, Oracle, PHP, search term, SUN, Sybase
January 9th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Hi Peter
At the risk of sounding like I’m in sales, I like to point out that Sybase was the first company to release a commercial grade RDBMS product on the Linux platform. We released the Sybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 ESD#2 (our original name before MS “somehow” ended up with it) on September 23, 1998. This was the year before both Oracle and IBM released their versions — I guess one of Oracle’s self-proclaimed “first’s” is not quite accurate!
In any event, Linux is clearly a great platform for Sybase and ASE as we share many of the same design principles around resource efficiency. It is one of our primary development platforms for us meaning that engineers are required to check-in features to this platform concurrently with Windows and one of the major Unix’s (Solaris/SPARC, HP-UX, and AIX). So, users can be guaranteed that Linux will benefit from new and useful capabilities that we are developing for people looking for highly performant and scalable RDBMS which places a premium on using HW/OS resources as efficiently as possible to get the most out of the box.
Thanks again for the plug…
Peter Thawley
Senior Director/Architect, CTO Group
Sybase, Inc.
January 12th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Peter,
Sybase professionals using Sybase products (including, but certainly not limited to ASE) have been contributing “tribal” knowledge for some time now on newsgroups hosted by Sybase themselves. Point your newsreader to forums.sybase.com, or find the newsgroups on the Sybase website at http://www.sybase.com/support/community-forums
January 28th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
Not a secret, it links have been published on Rob Verschoor’s site for a while now.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Hi Peter,
We have tested our banking applications (Trades, Risk Assessment and Reporting) in Sybase ASE-15.0 on Linux platform. Performance of Database has been excellent and have not found any significant issue. So, we believe that ASE-15.0 is excellent and safe… As safe and secure as Linux(RHCE) itself.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Hi Peter,
Another proeducts from Sybase worth attention are:-
1. Sybase ASE Central:-
This is Sybase Enterprise tool from which you can manage all your Sybase server!!. So no need to access your machines individually. Great tool for database management. Just install this tool and your DBA life gets lot simpler!!
2. PowerDesigner:-
This is tool used for database analysis and data modelling.