Sybase yesterday said it has formed a new division focused on the mobile and embedded computing market.
The company also announced that it is abandoning its co-CEO arrangement to make John Chen sole CEO and Mitchell Kertzman chairman of Sybase's board of directors.
The two top managers had shared the CEO title since late Feb. 1998. Chen headed up day-to-day management and Kertzman represented Sybase's vision and strategy outside the company. At the time, Sybase said that it would eventually abandon that arrangement.
With the new Mobile and Embedded Computing (MEC) division Sybase recommits itself to the mobile and embedded database market by devoting more resources to that market segment.
Sybase's MEC division will have its own dedicated research and development, sales and marketing, channel and customer support teams and be accountable for profits and losses, the company said.
The division will be led by vice president and general manager Terry Stepien, who helped to define the company's "small footprint" database technology, Sybase said. He will report directly to John Chen.
The goal is to position Sybase's technology, including its Sybase SQL Anywhere database and the new UltraLite database deployment technique, as the de-facto database for mobile computing applications and for handheld devices, the company said.
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