Sybase offers a glimpse of embedded database products

Sybase has begun showing customers a beta version of its new integrated embedded data management products designed to improve links between embedded database devices, such as Internet appliances and office equipment, and central data repositories.

The products, shown at last week's Embedded Systems Conference in Emeryville, Calif., are the first fruits of a partnership with Wind River Systems, which was announced in February.

The companies have integrated Sybase's SQL Anywhere, a database for laptops, handheld devices, smartphones and intelligent appliances, as well as Sybase's Ultralite deployment technology into Wind River's application development software, called Tornado, and its VxWorks real-time operating system. The new platform is part of what Sybase is calling its e-Anywhere strategy, designed to help users build and deploy electronic commerce applications for mobile devices.

The company is focusing on synchronizing and distributing data, locally storing data store for mobile devices and customizing applications. Sybase's new version of its SQL Anywhere Studio is due in the fourth quarter of this year.

Sybase: www.sybase.com; Wind River: www.windriver.com

Rohde is a correspondent with the IDG News Service.