Exec: Wireless expertise to help Sybase

14.02.2006

What's your strategy for increasing your 5 percent share of the overall relational database market? Our mobility strategy has brought lots of customers who had never done business with us before. Being treated as a strategic vendor on mobile data management is giving us the opportunity to come in there and start talking about our value on the data management side.

With our ASE 15 launch, we have completely stabilized the 5 percent we do own. The issue is, Can we grow that 5 percent? We can grow it in geographies where they are not still worried about legacy brand perception. We'll continue to innovate and at least hold our own. Database is still the largest software segment in the world. So if we have 5 percent, that's not a bad place to be.