Sybase Inc. Australasian managing director Peter Fletcher has resigned. He will be replaced in the short term by Asia?Pacific vice president Raymond Teh until a successor is found.

Fletcher says he is returning to New Zealand. ?I?ve been commuting for three years to Australia. My son is going to Cambridge University on a Douglas Myers scholarship in bio-chemistry, and I wanted to spend more time with the family.?

He left Sybase immediately after resigning.